Reading the documentation
Ben Bacarisse
ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk
Fri Aug 25 16:02:18 EDT 2017
ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:25 am, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>With that in mind, "an Integral" is a shorthand for "an Integral value",
>
> In math, an integral value is called an /integer/.
> Therefore, in math, it would seem strange to avoid the noun
> /integer/ using /integral/ as a noun.
>
> In a programming language with formal types, however,
> "an integer value" can be something different than
> "an Integer value", which in turn can be something
> different than "an Integral value".
I think you are agreeing with the text you quote, yes? (But including
the part you cut that gives meaning to "With that in mind".) I ask
because I am often not sure if you are making some subtle point I've
missed.
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Ben.
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