"Mikael Djurfeldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you want to use an operator which is common for numbers and <c>:s, > why don't you want to use a common zero? If you don't, the behavior > of the operator will be inconsistent.
For multiply by 0, I can sort of think of cases when the return type shouldn't be a fixnum. If you're doing 0 times a certain size matrix, then you probably want a matrix full of zeros to come back. Does that sound right? For multiply by 1, I can't actually think of any time you wouldn't want to get back the object unchanged. But perhaps if a class has a notion of multiply, but not "multiply by scalar" then you'd like it to be overridable so it can be banned. _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile
