for / while else doesn't make sense

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Sun May 22 13:30:37 EDT 2016


On Sun, May 22, 2016, at 12:46, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> Sorry, I have to stop you there as the entire premise of your post is
> clearly wrong. "int" is not "an approximation of real numbers", it's
> a model of the mathematical concept "integers",

It is a representation of Z, a subset of R (as is float, technically,
though that particular subset has no nice name like Z and Q) The
operators that apply to it are the operations on R, even operations
under which Z (or even R) is not closed.



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