<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>gt<br><br>--<br>festina lente<div><br></div></div><div><br>On 29 Oct 2013, at 19:18, Jesper Louis Andersen <<a href="mailto:jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com">jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:15 PM, OvermindDL1 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:overminddl1@gmail.com" target="_blank">overminddl1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1 for -1, 0, and 1, math simplifies then in cases</blockquote></div><br>No -1000 for this bad insane idea. Comparison is an algebraic datatype with three outcomes: lt, eq or gt. You DON'T use an integer domain to represent that. Why not -1337, 0 and +230439204830948320498 instead? They are equally good I guess!</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We don't need to diverge from Standard ML. We need to converge!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>J.
</div></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>erlang-questions mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions">http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>