From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] comparisons with NaN
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:24:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5gqaw6awrP7pp0ygFCBJJXThDK9XPWdHLpoDPZPKj-=Ew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25bb9e827d337c694b89b2d677d89017@hamnavoe.com>
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I think that if there is a generally-accepted standard for the behaviour of
a language's handling of floating-point numbers,
it would be reasonable to try to follow the standard, unless it's stupid,
ill-advised, or impossible (or all three).
That reply to the Stack Overflow post -- and this might be the first and
last time I can write this -- was, I thought, concise and compelling.
On 21 August 2013 19:00, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > by "this" i ment to refer to -0.
>
> But the subject line says "comparisons with NaN". Start another
> thread about signed zero if you like. (I'm not facing a test
> suite objecting to those at the moment.)
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-21 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-21 13:17 Richard Miller
2013-08-21 14:34 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 16:08 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-21 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 17:42 ` Bakul Shah
2013-08-21 17:47 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 18:00 ` Bakul Shah
2013-08-21 18:00 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-21 18:24 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2013-08-22 14:05 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-22 14:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-20 9:05 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-21 14:36 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 18:24 ` lucio
2013-08-21 18:27 ` erik quanstrom
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