Re: Introduction of fractions exposes uniform vector prototype bug

[Kevin Ryde]

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>
> (it's quite a surprising thing to carry forever: 1/3 behaves here
> as an inexact, whereas 1/6 doesn't).

Yep.  No claims that it's pretty.

> I'd propose making it a deprecated feature, to let it fade off
> slowly. Opinions?

My usual objection to deprecation is that if one is serious about
compatibility the old way has to stick around almost forever.

If a new way can be lots cleaner then it might make sense to add it as
well though.

> Maybe real names for number classes would be better.

I guess something like that would be unambiguous.