9 Jul
2010
9 Jul
'10
12:54 p.m.
On 15:32 Fri 09 Jul , Sam Martin wrote:
There are plenty of other examples of bit twiddling floats. Floats have a well defined bit representation (if a slightly complex one) so it's perfectly reasonable to be able to manipulate it.
Note that the Haskell report does not require IEEE 754 binary encodings. In fact, it permits 'Float' to be a decimal floating point type. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)