From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-09-23T03:38:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5069] Re: Proposal: Add constants to Math

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5045] Proposal: Add constants to Math"
    on 00/09/21, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|Since we now have Float#nan? and Float#infinite? I think the following
|constants should be added to Math (or Float?) for completeness:
|
|NEGINF = Math.log(-1) # Or better way of generating NEGINF...
|INF = -NEGINF
|NAN = INF / INF

Do you know good/portable way to generate positive/nagative infinity
and NaN?

							matz.