On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 14:01:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Yeah. I guess that the floating point stuff doesn't quite work
that way thanks to NaN. *sigh* I hate floating point numbers.
Sometimes, you have no choice other than using them, but man
are they annoying.
- Jonathan M Davis
No IMHO, it's not really the fault of floating point numbers,
it's the languages fault: gloating point standard contain the
'signaling NaN', if the languages used it by default then the
silent NaN many issues would never happen..
Silent NaN are an optimisation which is quite useful in some case
but unfortunately the use of silent NaN by default in many
languages makes it a premature optimisation pushed by the
language designers over the poor unsuspecting programmers :-(
renoX
