16 Mar
2009
16 Mar
'09
7:57 p.m.
Arash Partow wrote:
But in regards to some of the comments you've made about robustness and such, I would like to suggest you have a read of the paper:
"Robustness In Geometric Computations" Christoph M. Hoffmann 2001
Thank you for the reference. ...
reliance upon type precision essentially becomes a bottomless pit of problems.
That's the pit that I want to stay out of at all cost. Effort expended "maintaining" code subtracts from effort that could be expended writing new code. If I make a maintenance problem for myself by implementing something that will cause problems for uses then I become a slave to my own code. Hopefully the reference you gave me and those from Fernando can help me steer clear of the pitfalls. Luke