On May 12, 2013 11:36 PM, "James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote:
I'd add also that syntactically the key need is to distinguish "use floating point arithmetic" from "use integer arithmetic" where no other type information is available, specifically in numeric constant literals. Having a decimal part on numeric constant literals (even though 1.0 and so on are still integers, mathematically-speaking) traditionally serves this role. It's difficult to imagine a more compact and recognizable syntax than that! In some languages this is achieved by having a multiplicity of different operators for the same arithmetic operations, one set for integer arithmetic, another for dousing point, but this requires remembering more things. Nico -- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
