NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

[Peter Alexander]

On Sunday, 19 August 2012 at 05:13:09 UTC, 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 ...

Yes, I got this impression as well. What a sad state of affairs.