[Rivet] inRange trouble

[Andy Buckley]

On 22/09/11 12:22, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Thus spake Frank Siegert (frank.siegert at cern.ch):
>
>> I'm not sure where to place the cut of what has to be safe guarded
>> against C++ mistakes of analysis authors, but if you and Andy agree
>> that the above is a problem, then I'm outvoted.
>
> I know that I'm not immune against that kind of errors, and I guess I'm
> not alone. If a function takes numbers as arguments, users shouldn't
> have to think whether or not the number in this case might maybe need a
> decimal dot or not. We aren't writing machine code anymore. Last time I
> checked, C++ was defined to be a modern high-level language

In the same way as Scientific Linux was defined to be good for science? 
Science just has to change to fit the definition :)

Andy

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