10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
9:07 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:32:55PM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David Roundy wrote:
I think it's quite sensible, for instance, that passing a negative number as the first argument of (**) with the second argument non-integer leads to a NaN.
It would better to disallow negative bases completely for (**), because integers should be explicitly typed as integers and then (^^) can be used. I have already seen (x**2) and (e ** x) with (e = exp 1) in a Haskell library. Even better would be support for statically checked non-negative numbers.
I agree. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University