From: hadley wickham <h.wickham@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T21:34:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity

> Facets has Infinity (actaully it was deprecated for a while until I
> fixed. Your post inspired me to fix it, so it's now back in the very
> latest version. Thanks!)

That's great!  Thanks.

> It uses the constant INFINITY. Is that cool? Or is there some sort of
> general practice of using Inf?

I think Inf is more common: R uses it, so does MATLAB
(http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/inf.html),
and there's a PEP for python that uses it
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0754/, which also has a nice
discussion of these issues)

Hadley