[BLACKBOX] CONSTant expressions

From: Campbell, Robert D (SELEX) (UK Edinburgh) <"Campbell,>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:52:55 -0000

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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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