Bear scripsit: > It is sensible in terms of programming language semantics. But someone > who knew only traditional mathematical semantics would have no way to > guess the programming language semantics, and would find them opaque.
My point is that it's no more nonsensical than any other inexact so-called number. 0.0 is *not* the number 0, but an interval closed on 0 and open on the smallest denormalized positive number (at least in IEEE, where -0.0 exists). And you can give a similar story for 1.0 or 3.14159 or whatever inexact number you like. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] The peculiar excellence of comedy is its excellent fooling, and Aristophanes's claim to immortality is based upon one title only: he was a master maker of comedy, he could fool excellently. Here Gilbert stands side by side with him. He, too, could write the most admirable nonsense. There has never been better fooling than his, and a comparison with him carries nothing derogatory to the great Athenian. --Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
