Re: demonic problem descriptions

From: Christophe Turle (cturle_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:35:26 +0100

"Barry Margolin" <barmar@alum.mit.edu> a écrit dans le message de news:
barmar-282AD3.21101506022005@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
> In article <420670c4$0$958$626a14ce@news.free.fr>,
> "Christophe Turle" <cturle@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> It works with double float. But the point is : why MUST i care about
>> float
>> type EVEN if i'm not concerned with optimization ???
>
> Because you're not the only programmer, and other programmers have
> concerns different from yours. The language has to cater to a wide
> variety of needs. For many of them, floating point is the proper tool,
> and CL provides it, just like most other languages.
>
> If you don't need floating point, don't use it. But it seems really
> conceited of you to expect that the language should be designed to
> facilitate your specific application rather than others.

The problem is that you can always convert rational to float but not the
contrary.

This is the 'objective' ;) reason i think rational should be the default
interpretation, not because this suit best my needs. 

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