[OT] Sharp Regrets: Top 10 Worst C# Features

[renoX via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 14:01:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Yeah. I guess that the floating point stuff doesn't quite work 
> that way thanks to NaN. *sigh* I hate floating point numbers. 
> Sometimes, you have no choice other than using them, but man 
> are they annoying.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

No IMHO, it's not really the fault of floating point numbers, 
it's the languages fault: gloating point standard contain the 
'signaling NaN', if the languages used it by default then the 
silent NaN many issues would never happen..

Silent NaN are an optimisation which is quite useful in some case 
but unfortunately the use of silent NaN by default in many 
languages makes it a premature optimisation pushed by the 
language designers over the poor unsuspecting programmers :-(

renoX