I'd always just assumed that Arithmetic was chosen so that SignedArithmetic wouldn't clash with the old SignedNumber. If that's not an issue, definitely agree that Number is the superior name. On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 08:30 T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, I misread the arrows in that diagram and this makes much more sense > now. > > Thanks. > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Stephen Canon <[email protected]> wrote: > > The bitwise stuff isn't on ArithMETic | ARITHmetic | Number | whatever. > > On Jan 27, 2017, at 9:13 AM, T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Regarding `Number` or `Numeric`: Does everything in Arithmetic apply to > complex numbers and do we want it to? The bitwise stuff is where I think > that there might be a mismatch. > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > on Sun Jan 15 2017, Stephen Canon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Responding to the thread in general here, not so much any specific email: > > > > “Arithmetic” at present is not a mathematically-precise concept, and > > it may be a mistake to make it be one[1]; it’s a > > mathematically-slightly-fuzzy “number” protocol. > > > In that case, should we consider renaming it to “Numeric” or even > “Number?” That would at least remove the question about how to > pronounce it. > > > -- > -Dave > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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