approxEqual() has fooled me for a long time...

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 1 14:52:29 PDT 2016


On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 21:34:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 8/1/16 5:05 PM, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 19:43:57 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>>
>>> Just a hint don't use approxEqual() to compare GUI object 
>>> coordinates >!<
>>
>> It doesn't help that approxEqual basically just ignores 
>> maxAbsDiff
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15881
>
> Guys, this thread is 6 years old.
>
> -Steve

... but to be fair, the problem has never been addressed and the 
docsĀ¹ still read:

> The semantics and names of feqrel and approxEqual will be 
> revised.

In particular the proposed function matchDigits (without 
defaults!) was a good idea :/

[1] http://dlang.org/phobos/std_math.html


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