Re: Language design

2015-06-16 Thread The Sidhekin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Michael Zedeler wrote: > ...and unpredictable performance is a cost you're willing to pay? I don't write performance-critical applications, but even if I did, why would I prefer getting the wrong answer faster? Eirik

Re: Language design

2015-06-16 Thread The Sidhekin
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Michael Zedeler wrote: > I'm not saying that there isn't any alternative to the way other languages > implements floats, but Rats in particular seems to require a > nondeterministic algorithm in order to be of practical use. > Rats means never having to worry a

Re: [perl6/specs] b578b5: Distinguish listy ords/chrs from ord/chr

2010-12-10 Thread The Sidhekin
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, wrote: > Branch: refs/heads/master > Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs > > Commit: b578b580a3e219efc829bb723db457566c2f07e0 > > https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/b578b580a3e219efc829bb723db457566c2f07e0 > Author: TimToady > Date: 2010-12-10 (Fri, 10 De

Re: Bag / Set ideas - making them substitutable for Arrays makes them more useful

2010-11-13 Thread The Sidhekin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Jon Lang wrote: > Carl Mäsak wrote: > > Jonathan Lang (>): > >> That saves a singlr character over Bag( ... ) and Set( ... ), > >> respectively (or three characters, if you find decent unicode bracket > >> choices). It still wouldn't be a big enough deal to me t