[REBOL] Re: Tuples - Was Pair! thread
From: robbo1mark:aol at: 7-Feb-2002 14:29
Hi Gregg,
I don't mean that the pair! datatype is not useful or attractive, it is for the reasons
you outlined and many more.
I have lots of ideas about pair like datatypes.
Co-ordinate! 1.234x5.678
Complex! 1.234-5.678i
Ratio! 1/3
However I don't get to decide what goes into REBOL ;-)
My point is that by conciously deciding to disable the pair! datatype to be used with
the greater than / less than comparator function, for the reasons Holger outlined, which
i disagree with and are an unneccesary and artificial restriction in my opinion, then
the pair! datatype is "lame" in comparison with some of the other numeric datatypes,
tuple!'s as I gave in my example spring immediately to mind .
But REBOL is RT's baby so it's really up to them, I suppose I can only keep working away
to increase my understanding of REBOL and it's behaviour / implementation because I really
do still believe in
A better means of Expression, A better means of operation.
I've no wish to open up the whole old open / proprietary debate again, so I'll shut up
now.
Cheers Gregg,
Mark Dickson.
In a message dated Thu, 7 Feb 2002 1:50:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Gregg Irwin" <[greggirwin--mindspring--com]>
writes:
