Re: [Rd] a couple of things about :

2005-04-07 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: - It seems counter-intuitive to allow non-integer values as operand for :. It also seems a bit odd that 1:2 returns something with storage.mode integer, whereas 0.5:2 gives doubles. Would it make sense to disallow non-integer operands to :? I can't think of

RE: [Rd] a couple of things about :

2005-04-07 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Thomas Lumley On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote: - It seems counter-intuitive to allow non-integer values as operand for :. It also seems a bit odd that 1:2 returns something with storage.mode integer, whereas 0.5:2 gives doubles. Would it make sense to disallow