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From: kirby urner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Properties use case
Well, philosophically, I could see where a lot of CS types might have
a problem with mutable numbers, complex or otherwise.
Are you a CS type?
Arthur:
Are you a CS type? If so, speak directly.
I'm a CS type (BS in CS, MS in CSEE). Kirby's right, it's generally
considered better to return a new primitive type rather than mutate
it in place. Many programming languages impose striction
functionality which means you have no (or nearly
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From: Dethe Elza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:08 pm
Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Properties use case
Arthur:
Are you a CS type? If so, speak directly.
I'm a CS type (BS in CS, MS in CSEE). Kirby's right, it's generally
considered better to
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From: Dethe Elza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What defines a primitive type. My understanding is that in many
languages there
is no complex primitive type.
Each language defines its own primitive types, some have no primitive
types (or hide them better), some are
Obviously once I become convinced that the mutable complex numbers happens
to work for my purposes, there is nothing preventing me from implementing
as an extension in C.
Of course.
Would that put the issue to bed?
No particular issue. Kirby said something, you challenged it, I'm
putting
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From: Dethe Elza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I know, I read that. I'm not questioning that you know this.
You asked what problems from a CS viewpoint there would be. I told
you. You don't like it, don't ask.
Its not that I'm a bad guy.
Must be that I'm just
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Instead of having my geometric objects of the complex plane *be* complex
numbes,
there is certainly the solution of having a complex number as an attribute of
these objects -
and then I can take more your approach, and at the speed of C, since I would
then
be
Thank you for a refreshingly terse and substantive comment! Let's have
more of those!
mt
On 3/17/06, Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Instead of having my geometric objects of the complex plane *be* complex
numbes,
there is certainly the solution of
On 3/17/06, Dethe Elza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope, perfectly willing to be shown otherwise. On the other hand,
folks have dropped off the list, or threatened to, in part because of
your attacks on other posters.
My interest in justice has overwhelmed my interest in discretion. I
have
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott David Daniels
So, that's why CS people like immutable primitive types.
I believe you.
But if we trace back the thread we will see that the bottom line question
that I was struggling with
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