10 Jan
2008
10 Jan
'08
5:22 a.m.
I wrote:
Like nearly all programming languages, Haskell implements the standard IEEE behavior for floating point numbers. That leads to some mathematical infelicities that are especially irking to us in Haskell, but the consensus was that it is best to follow the standard.
Jules Bean wrote:
Nitpick: I think the haskell standard doesn't force you to implement IEEE floating point.
Not a nitpick. I should have written "Haskell compilers implement", not "Haskell implements". Thanks for the correction, and for the additional illumination. -Yitz