[racket] Why experienced programmers don’t use comments?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 12 12:09:17 EDT 2013

FWIW, that code is unlikely to conform to the C standard, in the sense that
it is (probably, I think, almost certainly, well, pretty sure) undefined.
You can't do casts like that, and so the authors are giving the C compiler
the liberty to do whatever it wants.

Robby


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:02 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:

>
> On Jul 12, 2013, at 7:17 AM, Greg Hendershott wrote:
> >
> > [1] http://blog.quenta.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html
>
> ^this.
>
> I was just skimming this blog post until I realized that they were doing a
> bit shift on the IEEE floating-point representation. Madness!
>
> Many thanks.
>
> John
>
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