NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Sat Aug 18 21:37:13 PDT 2012


On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:12:33 -0700
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I'm very surprised by how negatively many programmers seem to
> react to NaN. I think that how D handles it is great. 

Yea, it's kind of like Unicode: ASCII is much simpler and therefore far
more enticing. But unfortunately we have to deal with reality and
reality dictates that NaNs and non-ASCII chars exist and must be taken
into consideration.



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