From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-03-30T02:42:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13334] Re: A subtle Hash bug

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Pete Kernan wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:11:03 +0900, Christoph Rippel pontificated:
> + my reason for preferring the ladder is that the combination of
> + (-0.0 == 0.0) but (1/-0.0) != (1/0.0) seems somewhat dubious to me
>  1/0.0 == 1/0.0 is dubious enough. is this a cardinality test? :)
> % ruby -le 'p (1/0.0 == 1/0.0)'
> true

Is there any good reason why Float's "Infinity" value is equal to itself?
And then, is there any good reason why it shouldn't be changed?

matju