A perennial struggle. In this case I personally didn't take it in a bad way – I can certainly see how it seems stupid unless you know about the type stability issue. This is one of those unsatisfying corners of reality that don't seem to have a satisfying solution.
> On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:56 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote: > > No worries. After more than two years on it, I’m still figuring out what’s > the right tone for the mailing list. > > — John > >> On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Zahirul ALAM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks John. >> >> with regards to your side note, I will refrain from using that word. In my >> defense, my drink-fuddled brain was very frustrated. ;) >> >>> On Friday, 6 June 2014 20:10:14 UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: >>> You should use 10^-2.0. The way you’re trying to do things would require >>> that the power function produce different types of outputs for different >>> input values, which would make optimization/compilation difficult. >>> >>> As a side note, I think you’ll find it’s more effective not to use the word >>> “stupid”. >>> >>> — John >>> >>> On Jun 6, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Zahirul ALAM <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > 10^2 returns 100; >>> > but 10^-2 or 10^(-2) returns ERROR: DomainError in power_by_squaring at >>> > intfuncs.jl:60 in ^ at intfuncs.jl:84 >>> > >>> > do I have to use 1/10^2 instead? >>> > >>> > This seems rather stupid. is it a Bug? I am using the nightly build >>> > version downloaded a couple of days ago. I am new to Julia and trying to >>> > convert my a large Mathematica code in Julia. >
