Ah. That's pretty funny :) On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Jim foo.bar <jimpil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Mark, don't get paranoid :)... this is all Cedric did! > > user=> (def .3 0.4) > #'user/.3 > > user=> (+ .3 1.7) > 2.1 > > Jim > > > > > On 09/04/13 10:46, Mark Engelberg wrote: > > What version are you running? > > As far as I know, .3 isn't even a valid representation for a number -- > you'd have to write it as 0.3. So I'm not sure where you're running that > code snippet such that you don't get an immediate error. > > On 1.5.1: > > => (+ 0.3 1.7) > 2.0 > > That said, I think most programmers know that floating point > representations of numbers are inexact. That's why, if you care about > exactness, you should write: > > => (+ 0.3M 1.7M) > 2.0M > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This may look mildly surprising, and suggests one more thing *not* to >> ever do in production code: >> >> user=> (+ .3 1.7) >> 2.1 >> user=> >> >> :) >> >> Shouldn't be hard to figure out how to put a repl in a state where that >> expression will evaluate to that result. I'm sure mathematicians everywhere >> are deeply offended by the clojure reader now. :) >> >> -- >> -- >> 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 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
