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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/21
Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57286j$bm4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 570j6p$nlq$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net


In article <570j6p$nlq$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
Francois Labreque  <flabreq@ibm.net> wrote:

>Anyway, I agree with you that unless you deal with the infinitely small 
>or infinitely large, gone are the days where you had to substract two 
>floats and see if the difference was less than some predefined "tiny" 
>value rather than testing them for equality.

That is nonsense. 




  reply	other threads:[~1996-11-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-11-15  0:00 The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96
1996-11-17  0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-11-17  0:00 ` Eoin Woods
1996-11-17  0:00 ` The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96
1996-11-18  0:00   ` James Youngman
1996-11-20  0:00     ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-21  0:00       ` Paul Johnson
1996-11-27  0:00         ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-28  0:00           ` Don Harrison
1996-11-29  0:00             ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-29  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-29  0:00             ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29  0:00               ` Don Harrison
1996-11-30  0:00                 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-12-01  0:00                 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-02  0:00                   ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-20  0:00   ` Jeff Miller
1996-11-20  0:00     ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-18  0:00 ` Stephen J Bevan
1996-11-19  0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-19  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20  0:00     ` Matt Kennel
1996-11-22  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-22  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01  0:00             ` Graham C. Hughes
1996-12-01  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02  0:00                 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-12-06  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09  0:00                     ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-11-26  0:00         ` Van Snyder
1996-11-22  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-25  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21  0:00     ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22  0:00       ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-24  0:00       ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-11-21  0:00     ` Francois Labreque
1996-11-21  0:00       ` Kaz Kylheku [this message]
1996-11-24  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20  0:00   ` James Mansion
1996-11-20  0:00     ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-25  0:00   ` Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-26  0:00     ` Lawrence Kirby
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