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Re:Not Growing a Language by red_trumpet on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:18PM (#26683883)
Natural numbers don't form a ring, and integers don't form a field.
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Re:Not Growing a Language by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:50PM (#26684140)
Good callout. What would you use if you had to restrict operator overloading to an appropriate “number” abstraction?
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