Re: step size of nums

2008-07-10 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: Well, maybe 0 .. 10-ε or some such. This ε there is what I have as the .step method of nums in the thread The Inf type. That is $min..^$max is the same as $min..($max-$max.step). For Ints the .step is always 1. For Nums it depends on the number, that is the spacing of

Re: step size of nums

2008-07-10 Thread jerry gay
2008/7/10 TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: Well, maybe 0 .. 10-ε or some such. This ε there is what I have as the .step method of nums in the thread The Inf type. That is $min..^$max is the same as $min..($max-$max.step). For Ints the .step is always 1. For Nums it depends

Re: step size of nums

2008-07-10 Thread Mark J. Reed
2008/7/10 TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, does it make sense to define ++ and -- for nums as $x++ meaning $x += $x.step? No. Or should these operators floor the value to an Int and step the result? No. For any numeric type of $x, $x++ should mean $x += 1.3.14 becomes 4.14. -3.14 becomes

Re: step size of nums

2008-07-10 Thread Jon Lang
Mark J. Reed wrote: All of this is IMESHO, of course, but I feel rather strongly on this issue. ++ means += 1 . Agreed. Anything else violates the principle of least surprise. Mind you, this is only true for numerics, where the concept of 1 potentially has meaning. For non-numerics,

Re: step size of nums

2008-07-10 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jon Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if '++' works on strings, it might be reasonable to have bob++ == boc. I was assuming that would continue to be true, as it is currently in Perl5, Pugs, and Rakudo. (Well, technically bob++ is an error, but { my $x = bob;

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14559 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-07-10 Thread pmichaud
Author: pmichaud Date: Thu Jul 10 13:22:30 2008 New Revision: 14559 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: S12: Remove method fall back to subroutine. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod == ---

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14561 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-07-10 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jul 10 19:03:34 2008 New Revision: 14561 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: [S12] s/bool/Bool/ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod