NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

[Sean Cavanaugh]

On 8/19/2012 12:12 AM, dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 19.08.2012 06:12, schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
>> On Friday, August 17, 2012 17:03:13 Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Our discussion on this in the last few days inspired me to write a
>>> blog post
>>> about it:
>>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yehz4/nans_just_dont_get_no_res
>>>
>>> pect/
>>>
>>> http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/nans-just-dont-get-no-respect/240005723
>>
>> FWIW, I'm very surprised by how negatively many programmers seem to
>> react to
>> NaN. I think that how D handles it is great.
>
> i think many of these programmers seems to think that D is introducing
> this NaN-Type ...
>

Nobody knows how floats work, without being locked in a closet for a at 
least a week and told to change their doubles back into floats and fix 
their code, since thats where 99% of precision problems actually come from.