Talk:Fail-stop
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[edit]Modulo addition and multiplication *are* associative with themselves - most programming languages would have (1 + INT_MAX) + 5 = 1 + (INT_MAX + 5) = INT_MIN + 5
Saturating integer arithmetic, floating point arithmetic, and exceptions-on-overflow are non-associative, but that's not actually because of overflow, and that's not what the article discusses.
Overflow
[edit]The article says
* For example, the "+" operator in many programming languages is not associative because of the possibility of floating-point overflow.
but the Example that follows, and the linked "overflow" text, both talk about integer overflows and not floating-point. If floating-point overflows are a distinctly separate phenomenon than integer overflows, there should be an appropriate example; otherwise the text "floating-point" should probably be removed or replaced with "numeric" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.120.54.234 (talk) 02:26, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Scope
[edit]The article is saying it is a "subset of a computer language", but literature seems to apply it more broadly as a computer design model. Fred B. Schneider authored many articles.[1][2][3] Naruyoko (talk) 21:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)