Beta 2.091.0

[jmh530]

On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 12:17:43 UTC, Martin Nowak 
wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.091.0 release, ♥ to 
> the 55 contributors.
>
> [snip]

I'm happy to see those Windows install improvements.

In the changelog, it mentions isClose, but I didn't see that 
listed in the Phobos enhancement section where it links to 
Bugzilla. Maybe there should be a way to link to the  PR [1] in 
cases like that? The author addresses two bugzilla issues, but 
does not link to them in the PR.

@berni44:
I'm a little confused by the note for isClose where it says that 
isClose(a, b, 1e-2, 1e-2) is very similar to approxEqual(a, b). 
The default for the second optional parameter for approxEqual is 
1e-5, not 1e-2.

Also, there is a typo in the isClose documentation: "This is 
mainly usefull for comparing values to zero." Two l's in usefull. 
It looks like this typo is also in the approxEqual documentation. 
While you're at it, you might make clear that it checks the 
relative difference first (unless maxRelDiff=0) and then the 
absolute difference (unless maxAbsDiff=0). That made me 
realize...for isClose(a, b, 0, 0), it looks like it returns true 
if a == b, but false otherwise (ignoring infinity). Is that 
intended? I would think that it should instead have an assert say 
that the checks are skipped, but that's just me.


[1] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7241