[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Dave Froble]

On 1/26/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

Well, "have to" or not, that is the only method that works ...

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