float init 0 request

Mindy Batek (0xEAB) desisma at heidel.beer
Mon Aug 17 13:13:22 UTC 2026


On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 17:54:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Consider a scientist setting out an array of data collection 
> sensors. If you've got a lot of them, inevitably some will be 
> bad. A bad one should not bring down the whole system. Having 
> the bad data replaced with NaN will mean the rest of your array 
> data will not be corrupted by a stuck-at-zero problem with one 
> sensor.

But NaN as default init value is not like a defective sensor 
distorting the output with bad data.
It is like a flawed sensor design always feeding the system with 
bad data because of a design failure in its circuitry.


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