Re: RFC 38 (v1) Standardise Handling Of Abnormal Numbers

[Tim Jenness]

On 5 Aug 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

> This and other RFCs are available on the web at
>   http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/
> 
> =head1 TITLE
> 
> Standardise Handling Of Abnormal Numbers Like Infinities And NaNs
> 

Excellent idea.

> 
> =head1 REFERENCES
> 
>       Math::Complex

You might want to add PDL::Math (part of the PDL dist) to the references
since that already tries to handle NaN and related issues in a portable
way. The development version extends this by adding "bad" values to PDL
for those platforms that don't have NaN (bigger overhead than using NaN
but better than nothing).

-- 
Tim Jenness
JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj