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On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 3:26:15 PM UTC-7, Jim foo.bar wrote:
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> Alright cool, I'll do that tomorrow :) 
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> Thanks,
>
> Dimitris
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> On 07/11/16 22:07, Alex Miller wrote:
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> I think it would be reasonable to log a jira enhancement request for the 
> spec any? generator to avoid generating double NaNs. 
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> On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 12:30:24 PM UTC-6, Jim foo.bar wrote: 
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>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Oh yeah I've seen `s/double-in` but as you point out that doesn't help me 
>> if I want to :ret spec a function with similar semantics as remove (a fn 
>> that transforms a seq given a predicate), which I find a very common 
>> indeed.  I'm only starting playing with clojure.spec (in fact i've only 
>> spec'ed 2 fns so far) and I've not yet had to spec specifically a 
>> double-precision number. I have had however the need to spec :any? as 
>> ::anything-but-NaN, in both my first 2 specs, so according to my experience 
>> this is by no means a rare issue. In fact, looking at clojure.core, most 
>> fns operate on seqs, and a good proportion of them processes/transforms a 
>> coll according to a predicate/fn. This has nothing to do with doubles or in 
>> fact numbers. We can only spec the contents of the collection as `any?` 
>> right? anything more specific, and the gen-surface area is reduced. So yeah 
>> it's great that we have `s/double-in`, but ideally I'd also like a reliable 
>> way to say that the output coll from a fn is equal to the input coll, while 
>> having specified the contents of that coll with `any?`, and without having 
>> to jump through hoops in the :ret spec. My workaround is actually working 
>> nicely for me, and i can certainly live without NaNs in the tests, but it 
>> still feels a bit hacky.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dimitris
>>
>> On 07/11/16 18:14, Alex Miller wrote:
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>> Please also take a look at s/double-in, which allows you to exclude NaN 
>> (and Infinity/-Infinity) as valid values. 
>>
>> (I realize this does not address the any? question, but that seems like a 
>> rarer issue to me than cases where I'm explicitly spec'ing a double but 
>> don't want to allow NaN.)
>>
>> On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 11:37:08 AM UTC-6, Jim foo.bar wrote: 
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>>> Hi all, 
>>>
>>> clojure.spec helped me realise that NaNs totally break [1] equality (per 
>>> `clojure.core/=`). Even though in real production code this might not be 
>>> an issue due to how infrequently one deals with NaNs, but during 
>>> gen-testing I've found them extremely annoying, and I've essentially 
>>> worked around this by spec-ing things I'd normally specify via `any?`, 
>>> via `(s/and any? (complement double-NaN?))` instead. I have to do this 
>>> for any spec, where in the :ret spec i need to be able to confirm that 
>>> the input coll is equal to the output coll (e.g. `clojure.core/remove` 
>>> returns the same coll it was passed in when nothing has been removed), 
>>> which is a possibility in a lot of functions. Have other people 
>>> encountered this as well, and if yes, how are you guys dealing with it? 
>>> Thanks in advance... 
>>>
>>> Kind regards, 
>>>
>>> Dimitris 
>>>
>>> [1]: (= [:a Double/NaN] [:a Double/NaN]) => false 
>>>
>>>
>>>
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