From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-06-02T22:44:28+09:00
Subject: Re: <, >, and ranges in a case statement.


On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Max Williams wrote:

> Clifford Heath wrote:
>> Brian Candler wrote:
>>> Simplest solution is to use a Range with extreme bounds,
>>
>> ... such as a range that ends in Infinity:
>>
>> 65..(1/0.0)
>> => 65..Infinity
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Clifford Heath.
> haha, i thought about that but it seemed kind of crazy.  It  
> surprises me
> a little that Infinity isn't a singleton class like NilClass in ruby.


I guess that is because there are actually 2 infinities and both are  
valid
values with well-defined operations in IEEE754.

Regards,
Florian

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