Tolerant floor is the topic of discussion so when I said "the same as J in this regard" I was talking about tolerant floor. As well, the J Wiki page that I cited said nothing about signum.
> IMO tolerant <.0 and >.0 is more useful and > intuitive, just like the case *0 > being tolerant. Any chance that it will be > incorporated? No chance. ----- Original Message ----- From: bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, October 23, 2006 6:32 pm Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] fuzzy <.0 > Roger Hui wrote: > > I know that SHARP APL (and SAX) behaves the same as J > > in this regard. See: > > I don't have SHARP APL (and SAX) installed. From the old Iverson > (Sharp) APL > reference manual,it said > "The trend (signum) is not affected by []ct, comparison tolerance" > (the original text printed "not" in italic) > > I guess this meant comparison with zero is exact. Did later SAX > change it to > current behavior of J's signum? > > IMO tolerant <.0 and >.0 is more useful and intuitive, just like > the case *0 > being tolerant. Any chance that it will be incorporated? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
