Return True to Win

Re:Return True to Win by astrobe_ on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:57PM (#12277510)

Does that spec forces you to implement equality test between floating point numbers?

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Re:Return True to Win by Zarel on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:33PM (#12278177)

...yes? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here, though.

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Re:Return True to Win by astrobe_ on Friday August 12, 2016 @07:56PM (#12279554)

I'm asking if it is really a good idea for a language to provide equality/inequality for floating point numbers when it's often mistake to do that.

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Re:Return True to Win by Myrmornis on Friday August 12, 2016 @08:59PM (#12279709)

So disallow the direct operator but allow equality to be deduced indirectly by usage of > < >= <= ?

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