From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T18:03:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity

hadley wickham wrote:
>> Others have answered the main question here but it's worth noting for
>> the future that just because it says infinity doesn't mean a constant
>> exists with that name. Check this out:
>
> Yes, but a lot of languages provide some way of accessing the
> "constants" that represent special floating point numbers: Inf, -Inf
> and NaN
I think Matz vetoed anything that required IEEE floating point a little 
while ago. So ... for Ruby code to use Inf, -Inf or NaN, there would 
need to be special care taken to maintain portability.