On Mar 15, 4:34 pm, JLundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > It's also unfortunate that Python doesn't have an approximately-equal > operator; it'd come in handy for floating-point applications while > preserving hash. If only there were a ~= or ≈ operator I could > overload. And ~ is unary, so no joy.
One problem with it is that there's no way to make it universal; different appiplications have different ideas of close. Conceivably it could be usefully defined for a user type though.. Bacause of this problem almost no languages have an almost equal operator. I'm curious what languages do, of if there are any with a trinary operator that also takes a threshold. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
