On 6/19/06, Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Maclaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2) Because some people are dearly attached to the current behaviour, > > warts and all, and there is a genuine quandary of whether the 'right' > > behaviour is trap-and-diagnose, propagate-NaN or whatever-IEEE-754R- > > finally-specifies (let's ignore C99 and Java as beyond redemption), > > Why? Maybe it's clear to you, but it's not totally clear to me, and > it any case the discussion would be better informed for not being too > dismissive.
I just happened to be reading this, which I found very convincing: How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
