[Haskell-cafe] Re: 0/0 > 1 == False

[Achim Schneider]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:24:34PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote:
> > John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:17:18AM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> > > > The special case of 1/0 is less clear, though. One might
> > > > decide that it should be an error rather than NaN, as some
> > > > languages have.
> > > 
> > > It is neither, 
> > > 
> > > 1/0 = Infinity
> > > -1/0 = -Infinity
> >
> > Just out of curiosity:
> > 
> > 1/-0 = -Infinity?
> > -1/-0 = Infinity?
> 
> Yes.  (You could have tried this for yourself, you know... but I
> suppose haskell-cafe isn't a bad interactive Haskell interpreter,
> perhaps more user friendly than ghci.)
>
Prelude> 1 `div` 0
*** Exception: divide by zero

That's it. One just shouldn't just extrapolate and think you didn't mean
GHC but IEEE...

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