Hey Mark, don't get paranoid :)... this is all Cedric did!

user=> (def .3 0.4)
#'user/.3
user=> (+ .3 1.7)
2.1

Jim



On 09/04/13 10:46, Mark Engelberg wrote:
What version are you running?

As far as I know, .3 isn't even a valid representation for a number -- you'd have to write it as 0.3. So I'm not sure where you're running that code snippet such that you don't get an immediate error.

On 1.5.1:

=> (+ 0.3 1.7)
2.0

That said, I think most programmers know that floating point representations of numbers are inexact. That's why, if you care about exactness, you should write:

=> (+ 0.3M 1.7M)
2.0M

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com <mailto:cgree...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    This may look mildly surprising, and suggests one more thing *not*
    to ever do in production code:

    user=> (+ .3 1.7)
    2.1
    user=>

    :)

    Shouldn't be hard to figure out how to put a repl in a state where
    that expression will evaluate to that result. I'm sure
    mathematicians everywhere are deeply offended by the clojure
    reader now. :)

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