On 3/14/08, Imri Goldberg <lorgandon@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, I agree it's a good idea to drop the proposal to changing floating point == into an epsilon compare. What about issuing a warning though? Consider the following course of action. It is the one with the least changes:
== for regular floating point numbers now issues a warning, but still works. This warning might be turned off. All other operators are left unchanged.
If you change ==, you should really change !=, and probably the other comparisons as well. I suspect what you really want is a warning on any usage of a floating point. And I'm only half-joking. Comparison (or arithmetic) with other floats adds error. Comparison (or arithmetic) with ints is *usually* a bug (unless one of the operands is a constant that someone was too lazy to write correctly). -jJ