From: Mikael Brockman <mikael@...>
Date: 2004-10-13T02:15:52+09:00
Subject: Re: "nan".to_f ?

Markus <markus@reality.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 09:22, Mikael Brockman wrote:
> > Markus <markus@reality.com> writes:
> > 
> > >      Yes, but his point is that "NaN" _is_ the string representation of
> > > valid floating point value, defined and handled by the system, with
> > > standardized semantics, etc.   
> > >     "NaN".to_f should return NaN.  How else are you going to reliably
> > > get NaN if you need it?
> > 
> > 0.0/0.0? :-)
> 
>      I almost went off on an IEEE spiel until I saw the ":-)"

Actually, I'm as ignorant as you first assumed.  Feel free to spiel if
you want.  :-)