sqrt(2) must go

[Alvaro]

El 19/10/2011 20:12, dsimcha escribió:
> == Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
>> The hack must go.
>
> No.  Something as simple as sqrt(2) must work at all costs, period.  A language
> that adds a bunch of silly complications to something this simple is fundamentally
> broken.  I don't remember your post on implicit preferred conversions, but IMHO
> implicit conversions of integer to double is a no-brainer.  Requiring something
> this simple to be explicit is Java/Pascal-like overkill on explicitness.

Completely agree.

I call that uncluttered programming. No excessive explicitness should be 
necessary when what you mean is obvious (under some simple conventions). 
Leads to clearer code.