Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Warning: Tree raster can hang you

["Tuomas J. Lukka" <lukka@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:59:39AM +0300, Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
> > 0.1: not enough room to move towards 1.0
> 
> The room is countably infinite.  I don't know how we'd create uncountably
> many versions before 1.0.

But there's a standards problem: some people have used

	0.1
	0.2
	0.3
...
	0.9
	0.10
	0.11

and other use them as numbers; 0.11 is between 0.1 and 0.2.
It's common enough to make me want to avoid it.

> (Think of 0.10 being newer than 0.9.)

Yuck. NEVER.

> > 0.0.1: I dislike non-floating-point versions.
> 
> And I dislike floating-point versions :-)

For what reason?

> > Any reason in particular to use those?
> 
> It's just that it's more standard.  (At least where I come from.)

0.01 is pretty much standard on CPAN.

	Tuomas