From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:04:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pass constants as first argument to st_mult()
Message-ID: <20160803200459.hosgwqbgxnfc2jlz@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYonA8pYfW68SC6YaZ84Gz2Eo_qXDxQJ14_62abcd8-Og@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:59:34PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> I think I'd find calloc intuitive as a typical textbook question, "I
> want to have space for "foos", which each cost 5 memory, go figure out
> how much I need and hand it back to me".

I think it is more a language question than a math one, though. Is it "5
instances, costing 30 each" or "30-cost instances, 5 times". They are
the same semantically (there is no "30 instances of a 5-cost thing",
which does not map to the problem space), but just with a different
order.

-Peff