On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> wrote:
> I can also give a decimal use case where the current behavior is problematic
> A variable initialized to a signaling NaN should always cause an exception.
>
> But this doesn't:
>
> salary = Decimal("sNaN")
> minimum_wage = 1000
> if (salary == minimum_wage):
> print "do stuff"
> else:
> print "do other stuff"
Hmm. This does look suspicious. It's possible we should be raising
for signalling nans here. For most of what I wrote above I was thinking
of quiet nans.
Mark
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