Re: struct comparison

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From: Norman Diamond
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 00:00

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In article <1989Jul18.020424.2392@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Equality comparison on polar representation requires range reduction on
>the angle first.  This leads again to the need for C++, where you can
>define the comparison operation to be arbitrarily complex.

Well, with ordinary integers, overflow might occur.  Does this mean that
"+" should not be provided for integers?

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From: diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond)
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Subject: Re: struct comparison
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Date: 20 Jul 89 00:00:38 GMT
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