Stupid little iota of an idea

[spir]

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?

(I would be surprised if actual uses of iota in english do not point toward 
this kind of senses.)

Denis
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