> On Jul 1, 2016, at 2:33 PM, David Waite via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
> That only is about tau, which is a much more controversial operator.
> Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find the discussion of pi or E in the
> archives (but neither pi nor e are very searchable)
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160411/015021.html
> In general, the line for mathematical functions appears to have been set
> pretty high for inclusion in SE-0067, focusing instead on IEEE 754
> capabilities and general design/naming. There are a number of features
> missing from a standard math library such as the ability to do trigonometric
> and hyperbolic operations, exponential and logarithmic operations, and so on.
> I am not sure what criteria determined where this line was drawn. I suspect
> it was trying to get to a point of just additive changes.
That’s exactly right.
I expect that math functions and constants will eventually make up a math
protocol, separate from FloatingPoint. For the short-term, that niche is
filled by the C standard library. `pi` is so frequently used that we made an
exception for it.
– Steve
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