| Number::Tolerant::Union(3pm) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Number::Tolerant::Union(3pm) |
Number::Tolerant::Union - unions of tolerance ranges
version 1.708
use Number::Tolerant;
my $range1 = tolerance(10 => to => 12);
my $range2 = tolerance(14 => to => 16);
my $union = $range1 | $range2;
if ($11 == $union) { ... } # this will happen
if ($12 == $union) { ... } # so will this
if ($13 == $union) { ... } # nothing will happen here
if ($14 == $union) { ... } # this will happen
if ($15 == $union) { ... } # so will this
Number::Tolerant::Union is used by Number::Tolerant to represent the union of multiple tolerances. A subset of the same operators that function on a tolerance will function on a union of tolerances, as listed below.
my $union = Number::Tolerant::Union->new(@list_of_tolerances);
There is a "new" method on the Number::Tolerant::Union class, but unions are meant to be created with the "|" operator on a Number::Tolerant tolerance.
The arguments to "new" are a list of numbers or tolerances to be unioned.
Intersecting ranges are not converted into a single range, but this may change in the future. (For example, the union of "5 to 10" and "7 to 12" is not "5 to 12.")
This method will return a list of all the acceptable options for the union.
Tolerance unions overload a few operations, mostly comparisons.
A number is less than a union if it is less than all its options.
(a | b | c) & d ==yields==> ((a & d) | (b & d) | (c & d))
Options that have no intersection with the new element are dropped. The intersection of a constant number and a union yields that number, if the number was in the union's ranges and otherwise yields nothing.
Who knows. Collapsing overlapping options, probably.
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Ricardo Signes.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
| 2016-02-22 | perl v5.22.1 |