From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA21843; Thu, 20 May 2004 22:44:11 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22014 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 22:44:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4KKi9SH004325 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 22:44:09 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1BQuOf-00004l-9q for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 20 May 2004 20:44:09 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: University of Cambridge To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A problem with nan. Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:42:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040520115602.56566.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040520115602.56566.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405202142.56044.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40AD1899.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 equivalently:01 recursively:01 bool:01 bool:01 compares:03 wrote:03 nan:04 nan:04 structures:05 cheers:06 problem:07 explain:09 happens:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:56, sejourne kevin wrote: > ... > Can someone explain it? Are you asking, equivalently, why this happens: # 2.=nan;; - : bool = false # [2.]=[nan];; - : bool = true when "=" compares structures recursively so you'd expect it to give the same answer in both cases? Cheers, Jon. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners