I would argue the reverse, i.e., removing pi as a property of FloatingPoint. What is it there vs. being part of a separate mathematic constants package? I don't see Euler's number or phi (golden ratio) in the proposal.
Joe On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:45 AM, David Hart via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello community, > > Tau day <http://tauday.com> was yesterday, and reminded me that we forgot > to provide a `tau` next to `FloatingPoint`’s `pi` property. How about we > write a proposal to brind this forward-thinking constant to a > forward-thinking language? > > *Proposal: Extend `FloatingPoint` with tau* > > /// The mathematical constant tau = 6.28318... > /// > /// Extensible floating-point types might provide additional APIs to > obtain > /// this value to caller-specified precision. > static var tau: Self { get } > > David. > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > -- Joseph Bell http://dev.iachieved.it/iachievedit/ @iachievedit
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