Charles Greathouse on Fri, 11 May 2012 16:10:01 +0200


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Re: ispolygonal


> Alternatively, we could have e_INEQUALITY with an extra argument for the sign of
> the inequality (1 for >, -1 for <)

I think this would be good.  Perhaps also 0 for â, for things like zeta(1).

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:20:29PM -0400, Charles Greathouse wrote:
>> I'm not sure if the explosion of error types would be useful. ÂMaybe
>> it would be best to stick to just one or two (e_INEQUALITY, e_BADINPUT
>> by whatever name).
>
> Why not ? I would say, most of the time, you only want to catch very specific
> 'expected' errors, and not the others because this would hide bugs in your code.
>
> Alternatively, we could have e_INEQUALITY with an extra argument for the sign of
> the inequality (1 for >, -1 for <)
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.