[swift-evolution] protocol-oriented integers (take 2)

[T.J. Usiyan]

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 <scanon at apple.com> 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 <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> 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 <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> on Sun Jan 15 2017, Stephen Canon <swift-evolution at swift.org> 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
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