Stupid little iota of an idea

[spir]

On 02/12/2011 09:44 AM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> spir wrote:
>> On 02/12/2011 03:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> While iota isn't clear, it _does_ have the advantage that you're
>>> not going to _mis_understand
>>
>> Maybe you say this because iota does not mean anything for you (?). I
>> can easily imagine various appropriate uses of iota in a PL, like:
>>
>> * smallest representable value in a given numeric format
>> * threshold over which some measure should be taken into account
>> * threshold under which some difference should be ignored
>> * range for approximate equality (approxEquals: |x - y|<  iota)
>> * tolerance interval of technical measures (similar)
>> * ...what else?
>>
> 	Range with a single element (i.e the smallest non-empty range).
> Which is actually how I interpreted “iota” the first time I saw it
> (since it was obvious from the context that it was a range).

Makes sense for me as well.

Denis
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