On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:50:05PM -0700, John Meacham wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:41:23PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote: > > But what about that NaN->Integer conversion thing? > > I think that may be a bug or at least a misfeature. The standard is > somewhat vauge on a lot of issues dealing with floating point since > it is such a tricky subject and depends a lot on the environment. The > various rounding funcitons are particularly ugly IMHO. I added varients > of them that preserved the floating point type and properly implemented > IEEE behavior for jhc.
I think the Data.Binary guys think it's a feature, since they rely in this behavior (well, they rely on the equivalently-foolish behavior of toRational). I think it's a bug. David _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe