[racket] typo in signatures?
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:23:16PM -0400, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> > check-within
> >
> > http://docs.racket-lang.org/test-engine/index.html#(def._((lib._test-engine/racket-tests..rkt)._check-within))
>
> Yes. That's exactly what students should be using ubstead of anything
> that even looks like an equality-test. The only time you'd want an
> actual equality test on inexact numbers is whan you're using it
> algorithmically instead of numerically, such as attaching a memo-pad to
> a function on inexactt numbers.
Whoops. Wrote too soon. It's a check operation, not a boolean query.
We need a three-argument comparison that returns a boolean for ordinary
programming.
-- hendrik