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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)
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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Float processing is at the hardware level. It needs a way to signal when an unrepresented value would be returned.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

My thinking is that a call to the safe division method would check after the division, whether the result is a NaN. And if it is, then it returns an Error-value, which you can handle.

Obviously, you could do the same with a NaN by just throwing an if-else after any division statement, but I would like to enforce it in the type system that this check is done.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I feel like that's adding overhead to every operation to catch the few operations that could result in a nan.

But I guess you could provide alternative safe versions of float operations to account for this. Which may be what you meant thinking about it lol

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I would want the safe version to be the default, but yeah, both should exist. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

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