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And if they named it “vector”, a developer familiar with mathematics might believe it to be a vector.
by xigoi 4y ago
And if they named it “vector”, a developer familiar with mathematics might believe it to be a vector.
- bmacho 4y agoWhich is not a footgun.
- Banana699 4y agoIt actually can be, mathematical vectors gaurantee for example that x+y == y+x for all x,y, but no such gaurantee can be ever made on the user-defined operator+, indeed you can't even gaurantee that it is defined to begin with, let alone in the manner prescribed by linear algebra.
- dleslie 4y agoThe language is designed to replace, by progression, C++ for C++ developers. Mathematicians are probably better suited to using R, Julia, Octave, or Wolfram.