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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: Introduction of fractions exposes uniform vector prototype bug
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:42:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brq3ovc4.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031220161208.GA14431@www> (tomas@fabula.de's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:12:08 +0100")

tomas@fabula.de writes:
>
> (it's quite a surprising thing to carry forever: 1/3 behaves here
> as an inexact, whereas 1/6 doesn't).

Yep.  No claims that it's pretty.

> I'd propose making it a deprecated feature, to let it fade off
> slowly. Opinions?

My usual objection to deprecation is that if one is serious about
compatibility the old way has to stick around almost forever.

If a new way can be lots cleaner then it might make sense to add it as
well though.

> Maybe real names for number classes would be better.

I guess something like that would be unambiguous.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-21  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-25 23:02 Introduction of fractions exposes uniform vector prototype bug Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-12-19 21:38 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-12-20 16:12   ` tomas
2003-12-20 17:52     ` Stephen Compall
2003-12-21  0:42     ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2004-01-10 22:19   ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-10 23:02     ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-10  0:05       ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-10 23:30         ` Rob Browning
2004-02-12  0:26           ` Kevin Ryde

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