On 14/04/12 16:52, F i L wrote:
On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 10:38:45 UTC, Silveri wrote:
On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 07:52:51 UTC, F i L wrote:
On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 06:43:11 UTC, Manfred Nowak wrote:
F i L wrote:
4) use hardware signalling to overcome some of the limitations
impressed by 3).
4) I have no idea what you just said... :)
On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 07:58:44 UTC, F i L wrote:
That's interesting, but what effect does appending an invalid char to
a valid one have? Does the resulting string end up being "NaS" (Not a
String)? Cause if not, I'm not sure that's a fair comparison.
The initialization values chosen are also determined by the underlying
hardware implementation of the type. Signalling NANs
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN#Signaling_NaN) can be used with
floats because they are implemented by the CPU, but in the case of
integers or strings their aren't really equivalent values.
I'm sure the hardware can just as easily signal zeros.
It can't.
