David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:24:34PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote: > > John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:17:18AM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > > > > The special case of 1/0 is less clear, though. One might > > > > decide that it should be an error rather than NaN, as some > > > > languages have. > > > > > > It is neither, > > > > > > 1/0 = Infinity > > > -1/0 = -Infinity > > > > Just out of curiosity: > > > > 1/-0 = -Infinity? > > -1/-0 = Infinity? > > Yes. (You could have tried this for yourself, you know... but I > suppose haskell-cafe isn't a bad interactive Haskell interpreter, > perhaps more user friendly than ghci.) > Prelude> 1 `div` 0 *** Exception: divide by zero
That's it. One just shouldn't just extrapolate and think you didn't mean GHC but IEEE... -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
