[MLton] Re: [MLton-commit] r5662

[Vesa Karvonen]

OTOH, suppose that you wish to serialize a data structure containing
reals and maximize sharing during serialization.  If you use Real.==
to compare reals for equality, then the treatment of NaNs and signed
zeroes means that

   deserialize (serialize x) = x

no longer holds.

-Vesa Karvonen

On 6/21/07, Henry Cejtin <henry.cejtin at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> If you use bitwise equals for reals then NANs and signed zeros would do the
> wrong things, which I think would be pretty bad.