Danger vs flexibility. < or > are safe. Should they throw an exception then ?
Compiler in some older typed languages would warn you about testing equality between two float numbers irrelevant of their types but would be silent about other operators. Testing equality with floats is seldom used in the context of heavy computations. Testing against a range is often preferred. Money related apps use specific types to deal with rounding/truncating. This is why packed decimal was used intensively. You would always end up with two decimals. W/o having to care for the intermediate computation steps too much. Danger comes from ignorance. What you with it afterward is another story :) I would find it odd to see some operators throw such errors in a typeless language. > If the underlying argument is that it is horribly dangerous to mix floats > and doubles in your code, then maybe (<= (float 1.5) (double 1.5)) should > have the semantics of (.compareTo (float 1.5) (double 1.5)), i.e., throw an > error. > > I'm not certain that's a good idea for Clojure, but it does seem like the > logical outcome of this line of thinking. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Luc Prefontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
