On 09-Feb-2000, Mark P Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The Numeric.showFloat function is there for the more expert programmers
> who care about the last few bits after the floating point. That's the
> function that a Haskell programmer should use if they need this kind of
> functionality.
Mark P Jones wrote:
> The Numeric.showFloat function is there for the more expert programmers
> who care about the last few bits after the floating point. That's the
> function that a Haskell programmer should use if they need this kind of
I don't agree. Numeric.showFloat is for the novice who
Hi John,
| This is a "bug" in hugs.
|
| To illustrate the problem, the next floating point number after
| 5.0 is 5.0047,
| which hugs also prints as 5.0. One might argue that to display it
| as 5.005 would
| be misleading, since this number is the closest representable to
| everything
Frank Christoph writes:
It seems to me there is a tension between using show as a way of doing quick
and dirty pretty-printing, and as a way of getting a portable representation of
data.
This is a "bug" in hugs.
To illustrate the problem, the next floating point number after 5.0 is 5.0
