There was a Parcplace package extending VW with such classes (NaN, Infinity, Infinitesimal), and I liked it (can't remember if inheriting from Magnitude though).
The main difference I see with state of the art FPU practice is Exception handling: that does force Exception handling where users might prefer traditional exceptional values... Nicolas 2009/7/8 Igor Stasenko <[email protected]>: > 2009/7/8 Andres Valloud <[email protected]>: >> Would NaN be polymorphic with floats? >> > Do you mean , be a part of Number/Float class hierarchy? > Answer is: no. > Because NotANumber is not a number :) > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
