OK. That sounds compelling. Hot damn. A lexical syntax decision managed to get decided in only 17 emails! :-)
shap On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Geoffrey Irving <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm strongly in favor of + for both. I've written numerical code in > ocaml, and +. is a minor but significant irritant both to write and to > read. I would actually go so far as to say that it's one of my > biggest complaints about ocaml, other than lack of packed storage, > etc. (I spend a lot of time writing numerical formulas). > > If you are trying to verify that a given numerical calculation is > correct, you are going to spend the first half second realizing it is > in floating point and the next several hours analyzing all the > possible singularities looking for precision loss, so making the > second part easier on the eyes is important. > > Geoffrey
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