Movement against float.init being nan

[Ali Çehreli]

On 8/20/22 20:44, Walter Bright wrote:

 > I.e. a "payload" can be put in the mantissa bits of a NaN, which can be
 > used to provide more information about the NaN.

I think it is called "nan boxing."

 > I've never seen anyone
 > use this, though, but someone might

I heard about it either at a meetup or at a DConf. The speaker was 
explaining that exact technique.

Ali