> I have seen code that stored versions as floats and the dev was surprised that version 1.1 wasn't always equal to "1.1". And will break when the version reac

> I have seen code that stored versions as floats and the dev was surprised that version 1.1 wasn't always equal to "1.1". And will break when the version reaches 1.10. While I agree we need a better way to teach this (e.g. inexact-exact distinction as in Scheme or more recently Pyret), that's as problematic as storing a telephone number as an integer (or worse, a FP number).