Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does [1.0, 3 ..4] contain 5?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Bence Kodaj wrote:

Does anybody happen to know why [1.0, 3 ..4 ] is [1.0, 3.0, 5.0] ?

Nobody seems to know, aside from "that's what the Libraries part of the Report says". You'd probably have to find the committee that added it to the Report (good luck...) to learn their logic. (The quirks of FP arithmetic don't seem to be involved, since the overshoot is overkill for that.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net