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From: dik@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comments on ANSI public Oct 86 Public review draft.
Message-ID: <341@zuring.mcvax.cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 18:26:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 27 18:26:13 1987
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Reply-To: dik@zuring.UUCP (Dik T. Winter)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <5703@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
 > It occurs to me that we should not allow == with floating-point
 > operands.  I'm serious!

It has been thought of before, but than everybody would write
	if ( a <= b && b <= a)
and complain there is no equality operator.
The only solution is education.
(Ever worked on a machine where the hardware comparison is not
commutative?: the Cyber 205)
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
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