number printing problems in 5.9.3.99rc2 xmaxima on windows/GCL
Subject: number printing problems in 5.9.3.99rc2 xmaxima on windows/GCL
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:02:40 -0600
On 8/28/06, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I think it would lead to confusion if there were two objects that were
> different but printed the same. So a floating point infinity should
> look different from the atom $inf. Or alternatively, we could make them
> REALLY the same, not just on output. The treatment of inf and floating
> inf are inconsistent at the moment.
Well, for now let's just output inf_float, minf_float, nan_float or
something like that.
Or float_inf, float_minf, float_nan, same thing.
Or write fp in place of float if "float" seems too strongly suggestive
of single precision.
Eventually I'd like to see a unification of the symbolic and numerical stuff.
Robert