Everybody stop panicking! It's not a bug. (was Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"?)

From	luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Everybody stop panicking! It's not a bug. (was Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"?)
Date	2011-11-04 01:22 -0700
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On Nov 4, 3:02 am, ken <k...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <3aad31c8-7b0e-4225-a38d-3e97bd62d4f2
> @t8g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, mijo...@yahoo.com says...
>
> > > Never trust floating point numbers to behave like integers?
>
> > > Say
> > > 1 1 10 {=} for
> > > ... 10.0 div ...
>
> > True, but shouldn't 'for' be doing a fuzzy comparison?
>
> I think that would lead to as many error situations as currently occur.
> Follow the documentation, beware of using real numbers in for loop
> control variables.
>
>                 Ken

Gotcha. Sorry for the spazzing.
Thanks for the reference.

bedtime.

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Can it be! A bug in "for"? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-03 17:11 -0700
  Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"? A D <amd1234@fastmail.com.au> - 2011-11-04 13:58 +1100
    Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-03 22:18 -0700
      Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-11-04 08:02 +0000
        Everybody stop panicking! It's not a bug. (was Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"?) luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-04 01:22 -0700
      Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"? bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-11-07 16:22 -0600
  Re: Can it be! A bug in "for"? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2011-11-04 08:01 +0000

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