Re: Domains? [Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library]

2009-10-13 Thread Ville Koskinen
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:21 +0200, "Michael Zedeler" wrote: > 'a' .. 'z' followed by 'ä', 'ö', 'å' (Swedish) 'a' .. 'z', 'å', 'ä', 'ö' (Finnish) 'a' .. 's', 'š', 'z', 'ž', 't' .. 'w', 'õ', 'ä', 'ö', 'ü', 'x', 'y' (Estonian) So yes, you are definitely on the right track with Domains. Regards, Vill

Domains? [Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library]

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Zedeler
yary wrote: ... Also, the domain should define how to compare objects and could provide details about whether the set is finite, countable or uncountable. ... Sounds like a role "Domain" that provides methods (off the top of my head)- ordering - returns Nil if the domain is unordered,

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-12 Thread yary
... > Also, the domain should define how to compare objects and could provide > details about whether the set is finite, countable or uncountable. ... Sounds like a role "Domain" that provides methods (off the top of my head)- ordering - returns Nil if the domain is unordered, or a method impleme

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-12 Thread Michael Zedeler
David Green wrote: On 2009-Oct-4, at 2:07 pm, Moritz Lenz wrote: Michael Zedeler wrote: It doesn't, because succ should always give the next, smallest possible element given some ordering relation. Where's that definition from? The dictionary. =) It would be confusing to have a "successor"

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-06 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
Michael Zedeler writes: > Moritz Lenz wrote: >> Jon Lang wrote: >> >>> How do pred and succ work when given Complex values? >>> >> By adding/substracting 1 from the real part, I'd say. Don't know if that >> actually makes sense. >> > It doesn't, because succ should always give the next

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread David Green
On 2009-Oct-4, at 2:07 pm, Moritz Lenz wrote: Michael Zedeler wrote: It doesn't, because succ should always give the next, smallest possible element given some ordering relation. Where's that definition from? The dictionary. =) It would be confusing to have a "successor" method for som

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread Moritz Lenz
Jon Lang wrote: > Moritz Lenz wrote: >> Jon Lang wrote: >>> typos: s[Nuermic] = "Numeric" >> >> You do have a pugs commit bit, don't you? > > A what? AFAICT, I don't have any way of editing the Synopses; You have now (sorry for assuming earlier that you had). A username and password should be on

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread Jon Lang
Moritz Lenz wrote: > Jon Lang wrote: >> typos: s[Nuermic] = "Numeric" > > You do have a pugs commit bit, don't you? A what? AFAICT, I don't have any way of editing the Synopses; all I can do is to comment on what I find. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread Moritz Lenz
Michael Zedeler wrote: > Moritz Lenz wrote: >> Jon Lang wrote: >> >>> How do pred and succ work when given Complex values? >>> >> By adding/substracting 1 from the real part, I'd say. Don't know if that >> actually makes sense. >> > It doesn't, because succ should always give the next, s

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread Michael Zedeler
Moritz Lenz wrote: Jon Lang wrote: How do pred and succ work when given Complex values? By adding/substracting 1 from the real part, I'd say. Don't know if that actually makes sense. It doesn't, because succ should always give the next, smallest possible element given some ordering

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread Moritz Lenz
Jon Lang wrote: > How do pred and succ work when given Complex values? By adding/substracting 1 from the real part, I'd say. Don't know if that actually makes sense. > More generally: if Complex does Numeric, then Numeric doesn't include > Ordered (or whatever it's called), because Complex doesn'

Re: r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread Jon Lang
How do pred and succ work when given Complex values? More generally: if Complex does Numeric, then Numeric doesn't include Ordered (or whatever it's called), because Complex doesn't do Ordered. As such, you can't used Numeric for any function that depends on the value being Ordered. On Sun, Oct

r28597 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-10-04 Thread pugs-commits
Author: moritz Date: 2009-10-04 19:15:53 +0200 (Sun, 04 Oct 2009) New Revision: 28597 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod Log: [S32/Numeric] major overhaul * Most methods that were in Num are now Numeric * sign() and the rounding methods are now in Real * document (at lea