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From: Jed Davis <jdev@panix.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Re: Weird behavior with nan's and min/max
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:55:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tgnr81czqj6.fsf@cumulus.xlerb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51792.141.155.88.179.1066142234.squirrel@minsky-primus.homeip.net>

"Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu> writes:

> since it turns out that specialized float version of equality is
> different from the polymorphic version.

Here's an especially fun example:

# nan = nan;;
- : bool = false
# let (=) = (=);;
val ( = ) : 'a -> 'a -> bool = <fun>
# nan = nan;;
- : bool = true



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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-17 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-14 14:37 [Caml-list] " Yaron Minsky
2003-10-14 14:56 ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-14 20:52   ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-14 23:43     ` skaller
2003-10-16 17:29       ` Hendrik Tews
2003-10-16 13:16 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-10-16 14:01   ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-17  9:26     ` [Caml-list] Test nan (was: Weird behavior with nan's and min/max) Christophe TROESTLER
2003-10-16 21:40   ` [Caml-list] Weird behavior with nan's and min/max Yaron Minsky
2003-10-16 21:50     ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-16 22:52     ` Damien Doligez
2003-10-17 14:55   ` skaller
2003-10-17 15:14     ` Floating point exceptions (Was Re: [Caml-list] Weird behavior with nan's and min/max) Yaron Minsky
2003-10-17 23:55     ` [Caml-list] Weird behavior with nan's and min/max Yaron M. Minsky
2003-10-20 13:29       ` Xavier Leroy
2003-10-20 13:43         ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-20 14:24           ` Xavier Leroy
2003-10-16 23:55 ` Jed Davis [this message]

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