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la djan cusku di'e
And Rosta scripsit: > I wonder if {su'o pi no} and {su'o pi su'o} could be given special> meanings of '[some] integer' and '[some] rational' respectively. Do they have> other more useful meanings? I think using "su'o" is problematic, basically because of the very strong default that su'o cannot mean 0 (unless there is an explicit negative value following). So nopino seems like an improper value for su'opino, yet 0 is a good integer.
I don't see anything at all problematic about {su'opino}, it just
means "at least .0", i.e. any positive real or zero. I would not
take anything involving {pi} as an integer. Even {pa pi no} is a
real which just happens to be an integer, but it would be a value
to be used in a context where reals make sense. (So not as a
regular quantifier.)
In any case, {su'o} is not a digit, so taking {su'o pi no} to
mean "something point zero" makes no sense to me.
I propose tu'opino instead.
I wouldn't take {tu'o} as a digit either, but as I said
{pi no} screams real, not integer. I would suggest {pinai}
to signal integers, if {nai} was in UI:
papi = 1 as a real = 1.0
papinai = 1 as an integer.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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