On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the effort, but it also raises new questions. For example: >> Int is Num > Rakudo doesn't do it that way, because the 'A is B' relation in OO means > "Every instance of A is also an Instance of B", which certainly isn't > the case with Ints. Int is more like a subset of Num.
Huh? If Int is a subset of Num, then every instance of Int *is* also an instance of Num. That's what subset means... Maybe you mean they are disjoint types in the type system, but the set of numerical values of all possible Ints is a subset of the set of numerical values of all possible Nums? But then how is type compatibility obtained? > Which made me think, shouldn't Num be a role? and then 3.14 would be a > Rat or a Float or whatever, 42 would be an Int, and > Int does Num > Rat does Num But Int should do Rat, too... > That way a compiler that only implements classes and roles (and no > subset types) can get the hierarchy of numeric types right. ...assuming it's a hierarchy in the first place. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
