Hello Clojurians.
Normally by some IEEE floating-point standard, division by 0.0 should
give Infinity (or NaN if the divisor is also 0.0). This is the case
when using primitive doubles in clojure:
(/ 1.0 0.0)
=> Infinity
And even when using boxed Doubles in java:
public class BoxedDoubleDivideZero {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Double a = new Double(4.0);
Double b = new Double(0.0);
System.out.println(a/b);
}
}
$ javac BoxedDoubleDivideZero.java
$ java BoxedDoubleDivideZero
Infinity
But it is not the case when using boxed Doubles in clojure:
(/ (Double. 1.0) (Double. 0.0))
ArithmeticException Divide by zero clojure.lang.Numbers.divide
(Numbers.java:156)
Is this considered a bug or feature?
Thanks,
Tim
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