Re: Rakudo test miscellanea

2008-06-27 Thread Wolfgang Laun
Larry Wall wrote: but probably what the financial insitutions want is special fixed-point types that assume a divisor anyway. Would any financial institution care to comment? Some (VAT tax) computations are defined, by law, to be executed with a cetain precision. You have to be able to contr

Re: Rakudo test miscellanea

2008-06-27 Thread Moritz Lenz
Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:50:21PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > : I assume that 'Num' is meant to be a non-complex. > : Then it seems to make sense to assume: > : Int is Rat > : Rat is Num > : Num is Complex > : or am I off again? > > Well, there's this little thing called Lisko