Michael A. Miller wrote: >>>>>> Wacek Kusnierczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> > > > but it does seem to be a wrong decision for a language > > focused mostly with statistical computations and not > > computer science concerned with how to represent an > > integer. > > The key word here is "computations." And after reading this > briefly interesting and then increasingly depressing thread, I > can't help but note that it does seem wrong that people who don't > understand the nature and limits of computation get worked up > about design choices made by people who do understand it. It is > as if someone went to a discussion of composing music and > complained that the composers aught not be using notes. This > sort of inexpert commentary is typical in all fields and is an > inevitable result in open discussions. If this is intentional > trolling, we just need to avoid fanning the flames - they'll go > away eventually. >
he he he. as a person who apparently does not understand anything about the nature and limits of computation, certainly not the only one among those using r, i dare ask why the decision that is.integer(7) *must* evaluate to FALSE is so magnificently correct and obvious in a language that does seem to ask the users to think and program in a way that abstracts from low level language implementation-dependent issues. vQ ps. apologies for what some, sadly, consider trolling. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
