From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-05-30T22:28:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity (?!)

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:05:24PM +0900, Dossy wrote:
> Float allowing division by zero is certainly not of least surprise
> to me.  ;-)

A Float is implemented by a C double.  A Fixnum is a C long.  In C, a
long can be only a number, but a double has many special values
(particularly NaN, inifinity, and positive/negative zero).

For Ruby to work any other way would surprise me.

Paul