Hi, Just replacing a garbled typo that began just below "When you throw in" with the text that should have been there.
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:24 PM sisyphus <sisyphus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But I find the "logic" of what is going on here to be confusing. > > C:\_32>raku -e "say 1.8446744073709552e+19 == 18446744073709551615" > True > > The LHS is a Num that exactly represents the base 2 integer > value1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. > The RHS is an Int that exactly represents the base 2 integer value > 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. > I am surprised that raku perpetuates the dumb perl5/C behaviour of > asserting that those 2 values are equivalent. > > When you throw in: > > C:\_32>raku -e "say 1.8446744073709552e+19 == 18446744073709551614" > True > > C:\_32>raku -e "say 18446744073709551615 == 18446744073709551614" > False > > we're left with the confusion of knowing that we have an instance of A == > B && A == C, but B != C. > (The damn laptop I was using to write the post kept moving the print cursor to random locations.) Cheers, Rob
