
10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
11:53 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:40 +0200, jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
Yitzchak Gale writes:
Dan Piponi wrote:
The reusability of Num varies inversely with how many assumptions you make about it.
A default implementation of pi would only increase usability, not decrease it.
Suppose I believe you. (Actually, I am afraid, I have doubts.) Can you provide some examples of this "increased usability"?
If possible, with a *relevant* context, which shows that PI should belong by default to the class Floating (whatever we mean by that...)
pi /is/ a method of class Floating. It just doesn't have a default implementation. jcc