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A comment on Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019). Parent comment

Re:Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019) by wwright on Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:31AM (#22000629)
Have you heard of “divide by zero?” ;)

(I agree that math abstractions are less leaky than others, of course)

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Re:Pattern Matching in Ruby 2.7 (2019) by omaranto on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:00AM (#22001704)
I'm confused: how is dividing by zero an example of a leaky abstraction in mathematics?
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