Re: [BLACKBOX] CONSTant expressions

From: [at]} <Les>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:42:40 +0000

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POW Oberon will not compile it either.

Les May


Campbell, Robert D (SELEX) (UK Edinburgh) wrote:
> Folks
>
> This is not the most important problem ever, but
> the list has been fairly quiet recently ...
>
> I think that the compiler is overly strict in forbidding:
>
> CONST
> a = 1.;
> b = 1.;
> c = 2.;
> d = c / (a - b);
>
>
> In a language that supports INF why is division by 0
> SOMETIMES forbidden?
>
> (I was working out the Tangent of 90 degrees, and INF is
> a perfectly reasonable value.)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Robert
>
>
> ps - I wonder what GPCP does - it is generally stricter than Oms?
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