Of all the Perl programs written, how many will use Gaussian numbers?

Or look at it another way. How many Perl programs will make use of all that "long list of numeric types that mathematicians have"?

The vast majority of Perl programs will use nothing more than the basics, and the few that do will each probably only use one or two of those exotics. So long as whatever packages are used to provide the required conversions between the exotic types they implement and one of the built in basic types, where applicable, everyone is happy.

Conclusion: The theoretical problem of a combinatorial explosion of type conversions never arises.

In reply to Re^8: What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like? by Anonymous Monk
in thread What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like? by vrk

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