[Openmcl-devel] single float support in OpenMCL

[Gary King]

It's my understanding that unlike MCL, OpenMCL supports both IEEE 
single and double floats. If this is correct, is there some fast 
mechanism to test a number for single-float-hood (similar to 
ccl::double-float-p)?

Thanks,
-- 
Gary Warren King, Lab Manager
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But with C++ and Java, the dynamic thinking fostered by object-oriented 
languages was nearly fatally assaulted by the theology of static 
thinking inherited from our mathematical heritage and the assumptions 
built into our views of computing by Charles Babbage whose 
factory-building worldview was dominated by omniscience and 
omnipotence.

And as a result we find that object-oriented languages have succumb to 
static thinkers who worship perfect planning over runtime adaptability, 
early decisions over late ones, and the wisdom of compilers over the 
cleverness of failure detection and repair.
   -- Richard P. Gabriel, OOPSLA, November 6, 2002