I'm asking if it is really a good idea for a language to provide equality/inequa... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		astrobe_ on Aug 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Return True to Win I'm asking if it is really a good idea for a language to provide equality/inequality for floating point numbers when it's often mistake to do that.

Myrmornis on Aug 13, 2016 [–]

So disallow the direct operator but allow equality to be deduced indirectly by usage of > < >= <= ?

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact