[clean-list] Clean 'takeWhile' inconsistency?

[Arjen van Weelden]

Hi,

This has nothing to do with takeWhile, it is caused by the test for 
equality (<>) on Reals (80bit floating point register calculations vs. 
64bit floating point memory stores). Please see:

http://www.cs.kun.nl/pipermail/clean-list/2001/001639.html

regards,
	Arjen

Adrian Victor Crisciu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Trying a small exercise from chapter 2 of the Clean Book, I stumbled upon
> a curious problem. Running the following program yelds True, while I
> believe it should yeld False, due to the definition of 'takeWhile':
> 
> module cap2
> import StdEnv
> 
> Start = last (takeWhile ((<>) 0.0) (iterate reduce 1.0)) / 10.0 <> 0.0
> 	where
> 		reduce x = x/10.0
> 
> Am I wrong, or this an inconsistency in the definiton of one of the
> functions involved.
> 
> I use Clean 2.1 on a Linux box based on glibc-2.3.1
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Adrian Crisciu
> 
> 
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