[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-01-25, bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We got a complaint from an "engineer" who claimed the compiler was
> broken because when he compared reals they never equaled each other.
> Prime fixed that one by adding an error message that politely said
> "Don't do that, stupid".
>

Oh, for goodness sake. :-( Not that again. :-(

I am of the opinion that direct testing for equality of floating point
numbers should be disallowed by every language and that people should
be forced to use an alternative where _they_ have to specify the delta
value that 2 numbers should be within before they are considered to be
equal.

Simon.

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