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From: Fernando Alegre <fernando@cc.gatech.edu>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>,
	caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>,
	Chris King <colanderman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Equality of functional values
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:41:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070130204109.GB15659@gaia.cc.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170189001.21265.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>


Maybe what should be in the wait list is the following:

Keep == as it is now

Revert = to its previous behavior: first check physical then structural

Add a new operator =. for floating-point-aware equality that works on
everything the way = works now.

Would not this make everyone happy?

Fernando

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:30:01PM +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> But
> 
> let equal x y = 
>   Pervasives.compare x y = 0
> 
> works!


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-30 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29 21:04 Simon Frost
2007-01-29 21:11 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-29 21:23   ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-29 21:59 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-30  8:17   ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-01-30  8:45   ` David MENTRE
2007-01-30 13:24 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-30 13:55   ` skaller
2007-01-30 14:21     ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-30 15:21     ` Jeff Polakow
2007-01-30 15:49       ` Jacques Carette
2007-01-30 17:23         ` Chris King
2007-01-30 20:18           ` Tom
2007-01-30 20:30             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-30 20:41               ` Fernando Alegre [this message]
2007-01-30 21:01                 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-30 21:08                   ` Tom
2007-01-30 21:46                     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-30 22:05                       ` Fernando Alegre
2007-01-30 23:13                         ` skaller
2007-01-30 23:06     ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-31  0:15       ` Jacques Carette
2007-01-31  7:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-31 12:54           ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Carette
2007-01-31  0:15       ` [Caml-list] " skaller

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