Brian Hurt wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2004, skaller wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, <> is a polymorphic value comparison.
>>Whereas != is a physical inequality comparison.
> 
> 
> Yes.  I was wondering why the compiler didn't catch that I was comparing 
> booleans and thus it could inline the value comparison, and reduce it to 
> the equivelent to !=.  I've gotten into the habit of writting <> because 
> I'm playing around with FP, and 1. <> 1. is false, while 1. != 1. is true.
> 

Usually it is good to avoid comparing float with = and <> ...

|a-b|<epsilon is usually what you really need (except when you use float 
as higher precision int to store date (see Unix.stats) or other similar 
stuff ...). By the way why not use Int64 instead ?



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