I wrote: >> Like nearly all programming languages, Haskell implements >> the standard IEEE behavior for floating point numbers. >> That leads to some mathematical infelicities that are >> especially irking to us in Haskell, but the consensus was >> that it is best to follow the standard.
Jules Bean wrote: > Nitpick: > I think the haskell standard doesn't force you to implement IEEE > floating point. Not a nitpick. I should have written "Haskell compilers implement", not "Haskell implements". Thanks for the correction, and for the additional illumination. -Yitz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
