On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 02:18 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
Neil is on Windows. Windows doesn't have man pages (or libc).
Standard C math library does always contain trigonometric functions - doesn't it?
My libc (as installed by Visual Studio, and called msvscrt) comes with all these functions, but no manpages, and the MSDN (manpages for Windows) are too big to install on this machine. I answered my queries in the end by googling and finding the GNU libc documentation, but thats not where I want it.
It isn't something that would throw a C programmer off, but it is something that could confuse a pure Haskell programmer. And the only way I could be sure of radians versus degrees was by trying it out, not a great strategy for determining the implementation of functions!
Uh, why not? Often that's exactly what I do as checking even conveniently located documentation is more time consuming than just trying it.