On 12/05/2011 19:41, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2011-05-12 21:14 +0400, Grigory Sarnitskiy wrote:
>> I don't want NaN to propagate, it is merely stupid, it should be terminated. > > NaN propagation is not stupid. Frequently, components of a computation > that end up being NaN turn out to be irrelevant at a later point, in > which case the NaNs can be discarded. Unfortunately, if a NaN reaches a comparison operation, it can lead to an end result that doesn't contain NaNs, but was still influenced by one. Ganesh _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
