[boost] Re: Proposal : Interval arithmetric ...

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-03-08 18:17:28

Jens Maurer writes:
 > 
 > > There are some issues that need carefull attention, the behaviour of
 > > divide by zero,
 > 
 > This currently gives [-inf, inf] with my class.

From what my chemisty friend's have told me, this is what they usually
want, but there may be situations where a thrown exception is
better. Perhaps this could be parameterizable?

 > >   This of course
 > > is important so that we can write generic code, for instance the
 > > interval class should be usable in MTL with no changes.
 > 
 > I'm currently running the full MTL testsuite with my interval
 > class instead of "double".  Everything seems to compile after a
 > few obvious fixes, but there are still a few validation issues.

Great, and thanks for that bug report.

Ciao,

Jeremy