Re: Re: new release of Efficient Scalars in Scala (plus something extra!)

Hi Peter,

but physical units actually are values, and multiplying them is actually what you want to do. I think that
using ‘*’ makes perfect sense here.

Otherwise: which special character would you propose?

Regards,

Roland

On Jul 31, 2011, at 22:02 , Sonnenschein wrote:

> Hi Mirco,
> 
> if so, are not operators beginning with a special character more
> suited than "*" in this case? They not only have higher precedence but
> also no resemblance with multiplication. Now if we have
> val x = 5.2 * m
> I'd intuitivelly think that m is a value...
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 31 Jul., 17:19, Mirco Dotta <mirco.do...@...> wrote:
>> I'm not at all familiar with the library, but my guess is that by using * you can
>> tweak how the expression is parsed, so that parenthesis are not needed.
>> 
>> Using operators' precedence is a common strategy for writing DSLs in Scala.
>> 
>> Cheers,