floating point

In the new C2009 standard, they should introduce an operator for floating point comparisons, to make up for the fact that == doesn't match numbers that are so very nearly the same (like, to 10 decimal places), but not equal.

As this new modern standard will support Ken Thompson's UTF-8 encoding, I would use the symbol "≈". For maximum flexibility, this will be both an infix operator and a function.

The function is defined as ≈(lvalue, rvalue, precision), where precision is an optional parameter specifying the number of binary places to compare. The operator assumes that precision is two binary places less than the least precise out of lvalue and rvalue (so if you're comparing a float and a double it'll take the precision of the float as a basis.)

What do you guys think of my proposal? I'm about to email it to Dennis Richie but am a bit delayed because pine only supports ASCII, so I'm recompiling it under Plan 9.

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>>1
I don't like the idea much. First, the why is the first parameter an lvalue? It shouldn't be. Second, that's the same as doing l - r < precision, only you're bloating the language.

I'd write Ritchie to ask for true, specified Unicode support with UTF-8 and UTF-16 functions (not just vague refrences to "multibyte" and "wide" things), standard overflow testing, length-specified strings, and a safe standard library that doesn't scream "EXPLOIT ME LOL", including safer, proper, and more complete sscanf, sprintf, etc. functions; these would be my first priorities.

Right now the C standard library is so useless and the language is so limited that you have to implement your own language and libraries with it before doing any real work with it, save for small drivers.

>>3
I'd write Ritchie to ask for true, specified Unicode support with UTF-8 and UTF-16 functions
*facepalm*


(not just vague refrences to "multibyte" and "wide" things)
do you even know what unicode is?


safer sprintf, etc functions;
how about snprintf fuckin moron?


Right now the C standard library is so useless and the language is so limited that you have to implement your own language and libraries with it before doing any real work with it, save for small drivers.
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hm?

in the new C2009 standard they should implement objects.

>>13
I agree. It would eliminate whatever point there was to having C++.

>>13,14
Are structs not objects?

In some ways, yes;
If your stuct keeps a hash of function pointers to its methods keyed by the function names, and keeps space for its own methods, you can write OO code in for instance C.

OO languages just take out the extra effort.

In the new C2009 standard they should implement Python.

ITT, we've not heard of fcmp().

Floating-point is too complex a beast to be handled with a single operator, especially when that operator does not provide a way to specify an epsilon value.

>>18
I propose a └epsilon┐ b for Perl 6

>>1
USE GNU EMACS 22 WITH ITS SUPERIOR MAIL/NEWS CLIENT GNUS AND DECENT UTF8 SUPPORT YOU FUCKING HERETIC.
Also, http://fcmp.sourceforge.net/

>>20
My other guns are gnus.

Pine is shit use mutt.

>>21
shutup unsuave GNU moose

fuck the c2009 standard

C2009

Go learn floating points, doh!

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