-1 on enhancements in LANG 2.x; by which I mean that I personally am not interested in spending effort on 2.x being anything other than a critical bugfix legacy version.
Hen On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:21 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 January 2011 15:31, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why aren't the comparison methods in java (since 1.4) good enough? > > 1) LANG 2.x targets 1.3 > > 2) compare does not take into account that floats/doubles are inexact, > so some tolerance is needed. > > See http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm > for useful explanation. > > Furthermore, both compare() and equals() treat +0 and -0 as being unequal. > >> http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#compare(double, >> double) >> >> http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Float.html#compare(float, >> float) >> >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:15 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Would it be useful to add an equals method for float/double? >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
