[erlang-questions] strictly less-than (Re: [erlang-questions] Ordered set and DETS)

[Robert Virding]

On 7 September 2010 08:27, Richard O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED> wrote:
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> ...
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> (One of the things I just *love* about Ada and Haskell
> is that they do not allow 'mixed mode arithmetic'.)

This was also something we got wrong. We tried to be helpful and
wanted to make it easy to use. To be fair though we never saw
arithmetic as an important part of the language and in the beginning
we didn't even have floats.

Robert