From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-06-11T03:56:30+09:00
Subject: Re: step

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:42:33AM +0900, Kontra, Gergely wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just discovered step, but if I can see (in 1.6) it works on just
> integers:(
> Is there any reason why it cannot handle floats?
> 
> Gergo

I'm guessing because of the inaccuracy of floats. If you define a step size
smaller then the minimum accuracy of your range, the behavior becomes
undefined. For example if you did:

10E9.step(10E10, 10E-9)

The result would likely be an infinite loop (or maybe an underflow).

-- 
Alan Chen
Digikata LLC
http://digikata.com