[Haskell-cafe] Re: Repair to floating point enumerations?

David Roundy schrieb:

Why not look for a heuristic that gets the common cases right, rather than going with an elegant wrong solution? After all, these enumerations are most often used by people who neither care nor know how they're implemented, but who most likely would prefer if haskell worked as well as matlab, python, etc.

Although MatLab has a lot of bad heuristics, they fortunately didn't try to be too clever with respect to rounding errors. Floating point enumerations have the same problems in MatLab as in all other languages.