On 2015-03-06, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rustom Mody <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In a language like python with decent exceptions we do not need nans.
>
> Not so. I could perhaps accept that we don't need signalling NaNs, as
> they can be replaced with exceptions, but quiet NaNs are by definition
> _not_ exceptions.
And quiet NaNs are very, very useful.
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