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:
> "Imri Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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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 chan
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
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 str
