bigfloat

Frits van Bommel fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Wed Apr 8 13:41:35 PDT 2009


dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Jarrett Billingsley (jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com)'s article
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Walter Bright
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> Paul D. Anderson wrote:
>>>> b) the features and functions that should be included.
>>> I'd say NaNs and unordered comparisons. In other words, it should support
>>> the same semantics as float, double and real do.
>> opUnorderedCmp?
> 
> What's wrong with just returning some sentinel from opCmp?  For example, define
> int.max as the sentinel for when comparing with nans involved, etc.  For opEquals,
> we don't have a problem, just return false.

IIRC having an opCmp returning floats works, so you could return float.nan.
(I've never used this, but I think it was mentioned in these groups)



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