Re: how to compute

On Wed, 17 May 2006 03:51:57 +0200, Steve Haflich <[email protected]> wrote:

>    From: "Pierpaolo BERNARDI" <[email protected]>
>   BTW, I think the following is a small bug in acl:
>   CL-USER(153): 6042715942219502152353483497843569525253244555916134.0
>    Error: This integer is too large to be converted to single float:
>            343488630960564478300511837005615234375
>       [condition type: SIMPLE-ERROR]
>   (there's no integer in my code, and the value printed is bogus)
>I'm curious why you think this is a bug, whether small or otherwise.
> What did you expect to be the result of executing this form?  What do
> you find wrong about the result?  That execution signaled error?  Or
> that the error wasn't what you expected?

The error wasn't what I expected.
I expected an error message like:

CL-USER(153): 6042715942219502152353483497843569525253244555916134.0
Error: This number is too large to be represented as single float:
         6042715942219502152353483497843569525253244555916134.0
        [condition type: SIMPLE-ERROR]

but your explanation is convincing, and I retract my statement.

> First, why do you think the integer value in the error message is
> bogus?  It look likes the printed representation of a perfectly
> reasonable integer.  (If that integer were truly bogus, then we would
> be in danger of the sun stopping to shine and cracks appearing in the
> sky. :-) Rather, you should have said that you don't understand where
> that integer comes from.

Well, things I don't understand are bogus, of course. 8^)
(Just kidding).

Thanks.

P.