On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:12:33 -0700 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote: > > FWIW, I'm very surprised by how negatively many programmers seem to > react to NaN. I think that how D handles it is great.
Yea, it's kind of like Unicode: ASCII is much simpler and therefore far more enticing. But unfortunately we have to deal with reality and reality dictates that NaNs and non-ASCII chars exist and must be taken into consideration.