The solution to "Error handling"...

[Walter Bright]

On 7/4/2026 1:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> And from what I've seen, much as most of us absolutely hate the
> whole mess with NaNs, the guys who actually do a lot of math with their
> programs love it.

Here's a nice explanation of why NaNs are needed:

https://pzarycki.com/en/posts/js-nan/

NaNs are your friend with computer floating point math. The whole mess would 
(and did) exist before NaN was invented and standardized.