ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) (02/15/88)
You think you have floating problems, try this one out. If you have a Sequent running Kyoto Common Lisp just TRY typing in the number 0.01131678 and see what happens... >0.01131678 Error: Floating-point overflow. Error signalled by READ. Broken at READ. Type :H for Help. >>:q Top level. >0.01131679 0.01131679 >0.01131677 0.01131677 >0.011316781 0.011316781 Now put this number in the middle of a 400k data file that's a list of about 10,000 floating point numbers and try to find out why the file does not load ;-) arn't bugs in the underlying language fun ? --ritchey ruff ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- ...!hp-pcd!orstcs!ruffwork Hofsteader's law: It will always take longer then you expect, even when taking into account Hofsteader's law.