Re: Do we really need eq?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 02:49 PM 8/29/00 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
>
> > I'd like to see every number bundled with a "precision" attribute.
>
>While that might be useful for simple calculations, I expect it would
>simply get in the way and slow things down for larger, more complex
>calculations.

It'd also tend to freak people out when this:

    my $foo : sig_figs(1) = 2;

    print 3.1415926 * $foo;

printed out 6. You think we have bug reports from floating point issues now...

                                        Dan

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