[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Personally, I loathe the existence of NaN and +-Infinity in floating >> point types. > > I conclude that you live far from the numeric world. But I was raised as > physicist, and without them, the implementation of several algorithms > would be extremely difficult.
Hm. Can you give an example? (A web link, maybe to a paper or some, such would be enough). I am asking because I am used to calculating with infinity from integration theory where the rationale is similar: formulation of most of the basic theorems would loose a lot of its elegance if the 'infinite case' had to be handled explicitly. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
