Author: larry
Date: Wed Jul 16 23:52:23 2008
New Revision: 14566
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log:
suggestion from moritz++ that POST blocks be allowed to see the return value
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
===
Author: larry
Date: Wed Jul 16 23:26:04 2008
New Revision: 14565
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log:
clarification suggested by Bob Rogers++
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
==
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/
On 2008 Jul 16, at 18:48, Jon Lang wrote:
Moritz Lenz wrote:
Principle of least surprise:
Suppose sqrt(1) returns any(1, -1):
if sqrt($x) < 0.5 { do something }
I can see the big, fat WTF written in the face of programmer who
tries
to debug that code, and doesn't know about junctions. It j
Mark Biggar wrote:
> Let's worry about getting principal values, branch cuts and handling signed
> zeros correct before dealing with the interaction of junctions and
> multi-valued complex functions.
Indeed.
> BTW, two good references on this that we might want to plagiarizer.I mean
> borr
It seems like my smiley went completely whoosh...
Larry
Author: larry
Date: Wed Jul 16 15:53:34 2008
New Revision: 14564
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log:
typo from Brandon++
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
==
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod(orig
Minor typo:
On 2008 Jul 16, at 15:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+(again, conceptually at the entry to the outer lexical scope, but
+possible deferred.)
sub foo {
"possibly"
--
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system administrator [openafs,heimdal,t
Moritz Lenz wrote:
> If the programmer errs on what he thinks is in a variable, it'll always
> be a bug.
Yes; but some bugs are easier to make, and harder to catch, than others.
> Principle of least surprise:
>
> Suppose sqrt(1) returns any(1, -1):
> if sqrt($x) < 0.5 { do something }
>
> I can s
Let's worry about getting principal values, branch cuts and handling signed
zeros correct before dealing with the interaction of junctions and multi-valued
complex functions.
--
Mark Biggar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Lang wrote:
> Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> Jon Lang wrote:
>>> By the principle of least surprise, I'd recommend against this. Most
>>> programmers, when they see 'sqrt(1)', will expect a return value of 1,
>>
>> And that's what they get unless they write it as sqrt(1 + 0i).
>
> I suppose that you _
Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Jon Lang wrote:
>> By the principle of least surprise, I'd recommend against this. Most
>> programmers, when they see 'sqrt(1)', will expect a return value of 1,
>
> And that's what they get unless they write it as sqrt(1 + 0i).
I suppose that you _could_ use the programmer's
Author: larry
Date: Wed Jul 16 12:56:34 2008
New Revision: 14563
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log:
[S04] another whack at defining consistent closure semantics
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
==
---
Jon Lang wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:30:24PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> : Today bacek++ implement complex logarithms in rakudo, and one of the
>> : tests failed because it assumed the result to be on a different complex
>> : plane. (log(-1i) returned 0- 1.5708i, while
Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:30:24PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> : Today bacek++ implement complex logarithms in rakudo, and one of the
> : tests failed because it assumed the result to be on a different complex
> : plane. (log(-1i) returned 0- 1.5708i, while 0 + 3/2*1i was expect
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:46:30PM +0200, TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote:
: HaloO,
:
: I know that the hot phase of the operator discussions are over.
: But here's a little orthogonalizing idea from my side. The observation
: is that * can be regarded as repeated addition: 5 * 3 == 5 + 5 + 5
: and **
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:30:24PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
: Today bacek++ implement complex logarithms in rakudo, and one of the
: tests failed because it assumed the result to be on a different complex
: plane. (log(-1i) returned 0- 1.5708i, while 0 + 3/2*1i was expected).
:
: Should we standa
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 02:17:10PM -0500, Adrian Kreher wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I'm reviewing the tests in S09, and the file
: t/spec/S02-builtin_data_types/multi_dimensional_array.t uses the [0][0]
: indexing format interchangeably with [0;0].
:
: These two formats mean two different things, correct
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