From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T11:44:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26640] Re: [Feature #2347] Math::INFINITY

In article <12bc5d230911081821v27a97238o1a58cabd32f723e3@mail.gmail.com>,
  Yugui <yugui@yugui.jp> writes:

> As my understand, Ruby has not had Math::INFINITY because C does not have it.
> Introducing infinity might decrease portability of Ruby. But I think
> actually it is not a problem.
>
> Now Ruby assumes the environment has native threading and US-ASCII
> compatible locale.
> Here are a problem. Is there an environment which satisfies the
> conditions but does not have infinity?

NetBSD on VAX, I guess.
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Tanaka Akira