bug: broken sign functions

Ralf Juengling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lush.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The sign function maps zero to zero, cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_function

The Lush sign functions yield something else (they are not
only wrong, but even inconsistent):

? (sgn 0)
= 1
? (libload "libidx/idx-double")
  [idx-double.lsh]
  [idx-macros.lsh]
= "/n/toaster/u/juenglin/psu-lush/lsh/libidx/idx-double.lsh"
? (let ((s [0 0 0])) (idx-d1sign [-2 0 2] s) s)
= [d -1.00 -1.00  1.00]
?

Is there any code (in the libraries) that would break with correct
sign functions?

Ralf



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