Re: [pure-lang-users] rational addition

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

Ok.

e.r.

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 17:45 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Eddie Rucker wrote:
> > Just noticed that 
> >  > 3%4+2%3; 
> >  17L%12L
> > 
> > It would look much better if the answer was 17%12 since both 17 and 12
> > are machine ints.
> 
> The whole point of the rational type is that it represents exact
> rationals, you certainly don't want numerator and denominator to wrap
> around in rational arithmetic like machine ints do. That's why rational
> numbers necessarily use bigints and thus int operands of % must be
> promoted to bigint.
> 
> Albert
>