On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Shannon wrote: > >> NaN does not have to be a float or a Decimal. >> Perhaps it should have its own class. > > Perhaps, but that wouldn't solve anything on its own. If > this new class compares reflexively, then it still violates > IEE754. Conversely, existing NaNs could be made to compare > reflexively without making them a new class.
And 3rd party NaNs can still do whatever the heck they want :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
