> On Jun 23, 2016, at 15:19, Patrick Pijnappel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > - I remain unconvinced that defining an Arithmetic that includes both exact > and floating-point numbers is a good idea. All of the arguments from Swift 1 > and 2 about why we didn't include this still seem relevant. To phrase it in > generic programming terms, what algorithm would be generic over Arithmetic? > > E.g. generic point/size/rect types.
Um. I get that there are useful algorithms generic over floating-point vectors, and also useful algorithms generic over integer vectors. I’m still not sure what algorithms are generic over floating-point values (of any arity) and integers (of any arity). Jordan
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