Em qua., 10 de set. de 2025 às 11:54, Stephen Colebourne < [email protected]> escreveu:
> 1) Basic - add/subtract/multiply/divide/negate > Used by BigDecimal/BigInteger > To me, style 1 communicates "update" -- x.add(y) -- add y to x, update x by adding y. It would confuse me if "add" did not update x. Following Stepanov in "Elements of Programming", I think of this as "accumulator style". For immutable data types, I think style 2 communicates "new value". In my own arithmetic code, I use sum, difference, product, quotient and remainder; division produces a pair; inverse, half, twice or double etc. -- Pedro Lamarão
