Heya
I've been using Python for development for some years now, but up until
now, I didn't participate much in work on Python itself. I've decided to
'take a shot at it', even if a small one at first.
To the subject at hand:
Most experienced programmers know that you shouldn’t compare floating
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008, Imri Goldberg wrote:
My suggestion is to do either of the following:
1. Change floating point == to behave like a valid floating point
comparison. That means using precision and some error measure.
2. Change floating point == to raise an exception, with an error string
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Imri Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My suggestion is to do either of the following:
1. Change floating point == to behave like a valid floating point
comparison. That means using precision and some error measure.
2. Change floating point == to raise an
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| Most experienced programmers know that you shouldn't compare floating
| point numbers with ==.
As a general statement, this is wrong. Mark gave examples.
Please drop the proposal.
The reason for the int division change
I would suggest something like a ~= b, for approximately equal to. How
approximately? Well, there would be a default that could be changed
somewhere.
Don't know if it's all that useful, though.
Tiago A.O.A.
Terry Reedy escreveu:
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