Fractional/negative fixity?

apfelmus at quantentunnel.de apfelmus at quantentunnel.de
Wed Nov 8 03:58:44 EST 2006


Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
> On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:47 ,
> apfelmus at quantentunnel.de wrote:
> 
>> Henning Thielemann wrote:
>>> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd support fractional and negative fixity.  It's a simple change to
>>>> make, but we also have to adopt
> [...]
>>
>> I think that computable real fixity levels are useful, too. A further
>> step to complex numbers is not advised because those cannot be ordered.
> 
> But ordering of the computable reals is not computable.  So it could
> cause the compiler to loop during parsing. :)

Actually, that's one of the use cases ;)

Regards,
apfelmus



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