On Saturday, April 2, 2011 1:08:51 PM UTC-4, robertwb wrote: > > I think the key point is that there are several metrics for judging > code. >
While there certainly is some artistic quality to what constitutes "beautiful code", surely we can agree that code that relies on implementation details of the system headers or any other unspecified behavior of the compiler is bad. This is not up to discussion; if you rely on unspecified behaviour then you will sometimes obtain wrong (and sometimes only subtly wrong / lowered precision) results. Which is particularly dangerous in floating-point computations where you can't test all bits of the result against some theoretical prediction. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
