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double division by zero inconsistency

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Division by zero with doubles will throw an exception if both arguments are boxed, but not otherwise:

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Erik Assum October 4, 2017 at 6:43 PM

Any thoughts on an approach?
Both throwing on division by zero for natives and allowing it for boxed seems to be a serious change, and the tests expects an exception for boxed division by zero.

Erik Assum September 28, 2017 at 7:10 PM

So, I guess some division by zero is somewhat undefined.
If one removes

then

returns infinity as the unboxed versions.

Although doing so, also causes a change to

which then becomes `1/0`, whereas it previously threw Divide by zero.

From Numbers.java we see that unboxed math does not protect against division by zero:

whereas boxed versions do:

This inconsistency is also reproducible with clojure 1.8:

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Created September 27, 2017 at 11:57 PM
Updated October 4, 2017 at 6:43 PM