elm/core

Math module

dullbananas opened this issue · 4 comments

dullbananas commented

Basics module contains many functions and constants such as pi snd cos which should go in a separate Math module

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rlefevre commented

Hi.

You don't actually present any argument in favor of such a change.
"should" is not an argument.

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dullbananas commented

  • A lot of the math stuff in Basics aren't common enough to need to automatically get imported with (..) compared to stuff like identity and I think it is very bad that the core module that has the most stuff is also the one that always gets automatically imported with (..).

  • Seeing Math.toPolar when reading code is way less confusing than toPolar since that function is not common or well known compared to other things in the core library.

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dullbananas commented

This can also help make Elm more familiar to users of JavaScript, where many math functions are static methods of the Math object