Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Aug 10 21:35:59 PDT 2012


On 8/10/2012 9:32 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/10/2012 9:01 PM, F i L wrote:
>> I had a debate on here a few months ago about the merits of default-to-NaN and
>> others brought up similar situations. but since we can write:
>>
>>      float z = float.nan;
>>      ...
>
> That is a good solution, but in my experience programmers just throw in an =0,
> as it is simple and fast, and they don't normally think about NaN's.

Let me amend that. I've never seen anyone use float.nan, or whatever NaN is in 
the language they were using. They always use =0. I doubt that yelling at them 
will change anything.


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