[postmodern-devel] Release 1.14

Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 22:17:21 UTC 2009


hello Marijn,


> About the default -- I still think a lot of people might be
> (intentionally or unintentionally) using ratios to fill float slots,
> so to me defaulting to T makes sense. People who care about precision
> can easily set the variable to NIL.


users can certainly set it, that's why it was added... but only
*AFTER* they have understood and realized the potential dangers, which
may be a long time after going live and doing serious miscalculation
leading to silent data "corruption"...

but as i promised, it was my last try in this. i'm on the safe side by
now anyway... :)

happy hacking,

-- 
 attila




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