--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Gregory Crosswhite <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Gregory Crosswhite <[email protected]> > > On a tangental note, I've considered coding up a package > with an "AlmostEq" typeclass that allows one to test for > approximate equality. The problem is that different > situations call for different tolerances so there is no > standard "approximate equal" operator that would work for > everyone, but there might be a tolerance that is "good > enough" for most situations where it would be needed (such > as using QuickCheck to test that two different > floating-point functions that are supposed to return the > same answer actually do so) to make it worthwhile to have a > standard package for this around for the sake of > convenience. > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > It's always worth pointing out http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html at this point (not that it really helps you out in this case) Doug _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
