code not true?

[Mark Hammond]

"Grant Edwards" <nobody at nowhere.nohow> wrote in message
news:M3iM4.518$wJ1.17829 at ptah.visi.com...

> This seems to be something that we were all told as freshmen
> but stumble over later anyway.  One wonders if a safe language
> intended for use by beginners should even have an equality
> operator for floating point objects.

Of all the solutions to this problem, this does strike me as one of the
best - simply remove equality testing al together for floating point:

>>> 1.0==1.0
Traceback (whatever it says today)
File <etc etc> in ?
Floating points numbers cant be compared.
In fact, life would be better if you could pretend they didnt even exist.
Dont even ask.  You were warned.


Mark.