On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> F.9.9.2 The fmax functions
> 1 If just one argument is a NaN, the fmax functions return the other
> argument (if both arguments are NaNs, the functions return a NaN).
> 2 The body of the fmax function might be
> {return (isgreaterequal(x, y) ||
> isnan(y)) ? x : y; }
>
> If we want to follow C99 semantics rather than our own
> NaN-always-propagates semantics, then we should do this instead.
>
+1 for NaN-always-propagates since we have explicit variants for the
alternative semantics.
Users are more likely to remember that "NaNs always propagate" than
"as stated in the C99 standard...".
--
Nathan Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://graphics.cs.uiuc.edu/~wnbell/
_______________________________________________
Numpy-discussion mailing list
Numpy-discussion@scipy.org
http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
