Re: Infinity (to the nearest integer)
"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.e.general |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 26, 2010, at 15:59, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > > > I haven't tracked this topic in detail, so I may be misinterpreting > > Kevin's statement above, but here is my concern: > > > > If an implementation chooses to distinguish 32-bit and 64-bit > > floating point types, it absolutely must not return the same object > > for NaN in the two cases. While E is dynamically typed, it is a > > terrible idea to introduce behavior that reduces our ability to > > statically type check portions of the language. > > > Do you mean type *checking*, or type *inference* and type-information- > based optimization? Both. shap _______________________________________________ e-lang mailing list [email protected] http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang