On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > RM=Raul Miller, DB=me: > RM> I. becoming tolerant would be a breaking change > RM> in the language ... So I do not consider potential > RM> language change to be a valid design issue. > > I have less confidence in this inference than you do, especially > in the context of tolerance (or other implementation, as opposed to > notation, changes) [1].
Can you point me at anything specific that would give me reason to agree with you? For example, here is an example of the kind of thing which I based my inference on: http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2005-April/021444.html "the non-transitive nature of tolerant comparison is inimical with ordering" -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
