[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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