[Grace-core] On numbers and objects

James Noble kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Tue Nov 9 00:13:59 PST 2010


On 9/11/2010, at 10:24 AM, Andrew P. Black wrote:
> I suppose that there is a philosophical difference between 56 being  
> a reference to the one true 56 object that we all share, and 56  
> coming  into existence because the Grace implementation parsed my  
> literal.  Do we ned to debate this?  Does it change anything?

no - because *it is impossible for a Grace program to tell the  
difference!*

>  56 || 56 regardless, and 56 || 57 will always be false.

right

> || is Baker's symbol for egal.  If we are going to use that, then I  
> can't have || for comments.    That's OK ;-)

we're not going to use || for egal
(and probably not for comments either :-)

J


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