From: Zsban Ambrus <ambrus@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T04:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Major Addition Bug?

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:57:33AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Zsban Ambrus wrote:
> >No. I'd rather think this is not the problem. The problem is
> >that you should not compare floating-point numbers with == or != unless you
> >have a good reason to do it. 
> 
> Should 'ruby -W2' warn on use of Float#== ?

No. Certainly not.

There are valid uses for ==, you just have to know the limits
of it on floating-point numbers if you are programming.  
Also, no programming language warns on it.