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On 23/07/2011 11:23 AM, David Lamb wrote:
> On 21/07/2011 8:32 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> agreeCount = agreeCount.plus(AgreeCount.ONE)
>> on painfulness of non-primitive math.
>
> or if you think ++ is common enough:
> agreeCount.increment();
> and generally
> agreeCount.add(someOtherAgreeCount)
> and if you decide to have your operators return "this"
> ac0.mul(ac1).plus(ac2)) // ac0 = ac0*ac1+ac2
> or
> ac = (new AgreeCount(ac0)).mul(ac1).plus(ac2) // ac = ac0*ac1+ac2

Eww. Mutable number classes.

I think I'm going to throw up.