Tomasz Zielonka writes:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:09:04PM +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
If you are going to wait four months, you don't care about nanoseconds.
No? Are you sure? To wait forty months expecting two things to happen ten nanoseconds apart and then have them happen simultaneously would be annoying.
Hmmm, that's right. Perhaps it would be best to use some fixed-point type with unbounded integral part, like those used for representing currency, but not necessarily decimal.
I'd go with ratios. Haskell has a built-in type, and they can give you
as many digits of precision as you need--unless you're dealing with an
irrational timeout value.
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David Menendez