On 11/12/2013 10:25 AM, Bigsandwich wrote:
Please, please, please just no. As someone who works with floating point daily,
you cannot idiot proof it like this. They will never behave like "just numbers"
and you can't make them.
Even leaving out NAN, you have issues with precision, accumulated error,
denormals, equality comparison, and on and on.
If you don't know what you are doing with them, then you just shouldn't be
touching them. Unicode has similar issues.
I think it's apropos to reference this famous document:
"What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic"
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
I know, I know, RTFM, but one cannot ignore this stuff and write professional
quality fp code, nor is it practical to have the language ignore it for you.
