[Haskell-cafe] about integer and float operations

[Manlio Perillo]

Yitzchak Gale ha scritto:
> Manlio Perillo wrote:
>> No.
>> I'm looking for...
> 
> Manlio - can you describe exactly what you want?
> Do you know exactly what you want?
> 
> You have said that you want division like in Python -
> but that even that is not well defined:
> 
> Python 2.6.1
>>>> 3/5
> 0
> 

You have to:
from __future__ import division

In Python 3.x this is now the default behaviour

> Python 3.1
>>>> 3/5
> 0.59999999999999998
> 

> Please tell us *exactly* what you want your division to
> do, on integers and on floating point.

I'm posting more details in another response.



Thanks   Manlio Perillo