On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:30 AM, dennis zhuang <killme2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Added a postfix "M" to make the number as BigDecimal or "N" as a BigInteger:
That doesn't work here. It's not double literals that are the problem, but computed values that are coming out as doubles. Furthermore, I'd like the code to use BigDecimals when it must, but use doubles when it can, so coercing everything with bigdec is not ideal. With int/BigInt it would be easy enough, as one BigInt would spread to everything it touched. But for some reason doubles and BigDecimals don't behave the same way. Perhaps because they figured any double clobbers any reliability to the extra precision in a BigDecimal calculation. But that didn't consider that someone might be doing calculations where they don't need a wider mantissa but do need exponents bigger than 10^308. In that situation, BigDecimal contagion is desirable. So I'd like to know of some way to switch it on for a particular chunk of code, or operators analogous to the primed operators that favor BigDecimal over double. (It's worse than just the lack of /', by the way. +' and friends favor double over BigDecimal the same as + and friends. Arrrgh!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
