...and unpredictable performance is a cost you're willing to pay? M.
---- The Sidhekin wrote ---- >On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Michael Zedeler <mich...@zedeler.dk> wrote: > >I'm not saying that there isn't any alternative to the way other languages >implements floats, but Rats in particular seems to require a nondeterministic >algorithm in order to be of practical use. > > Rats means never having to worry about inaccurate float representations. > >$ perl -E '$i+=0.1 for 0..1000; say for $i, $i cmp 100.1' # oops … >100.099999999999 >-1 >$ perl6 -e 'my $i; $i+=0.1 for 0..1000; .say for $i, $i cmp 100.1' >100.1 >Same >$ > > Float inaccuracy is one of the things I'm really looking forward to >forgetting. :) > > > >Eirik >
