Re: Language design

2015-06-22 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2015-06-16 2:15 PM, The Sidhekin wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Michael Zedeler mich...@zedeler.dk wrote: ...and unpredictable performance is a cost you're willing to pay? I don't write performance-critical applications, but even if I did, why would I prefer getting the

Rationalizing numeric types

2015-06-22 Thread yary
Thinking over my programming career, there were a few occasions I had to spend time working around floating point errors, and it was a nuisance. There were even fewer times when I worked with transcendental numbers- programs dealing with geometry or tones or logarithmic scales- and those times,

Re: Rationalizing numeric types

2015-06-22 Thread Solomon Foster
Yary, There already is a Perl 6 continue fractions module. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work in the least. But I'd be happy to give you a commit bit. I don't think we should even begin to think about including something like that in the Perl 6 core before we have a complete, working