> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Subject: Re: [OT] Setting HTTP response headers caching for 1 year doesn't > work
> What kind of stupid compiler is this, which requires me to say > double d = 1.0 / 2; > to get a correct result ? One that abides by the C (or Java) standards. > And even then, if the expression was > double d = 1.0 / 3; > I would probably *still* not get a result with the precision > afforded by the double d, and would have to write > double d = 1.0D / 3; > to get it right, right ? Nope - the standards require that otherwise unannotated floating point operations must be done in double precision. (What, you want consistency?) > I maintain what I said : a programming language which produces a > wrong result, without even a warning, for an expression as simple as > Long a = (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365) > should be consigned to iPods and stuff, not used for serious things > like Tomcat. Careful, there's a lot more mathematically-sensitive code in an iPod, iPhone, or iPad than in Tomcat. (Think about video and audio decoding.) However, I suspect that Objective-C still follows the C standards for expressions. > (No wonder after that, that lunar probes go CFIT.) Nah, it's that damn metric system (think Gimli Glider). - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.
