On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:30:03PM -0700, Will Coleda via RT wrote:
> On Tue Nov 17 08:32:14 2009, masak wrote:
> > <diakopter> rakudo: say 0e99999999999 # masak
> > <p6eval> rakudo 7347ec: undefined identifier 'NaN' [...]
> > <moritz_> ng: say 0e99999999999
> > <p6eval> ng 94fa72: error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected IDENTIFIER,
> > expecting COMMA or ')' ('NaN')
> > <diakopter> whoa
> > * masak submits rakudobug
>
> 00:29 <[Coke]> rakudo: say 0e99999999999
> 00:29 <p6eval> rakudo 67778a: OUTPUT«NaN???»
>
> That looks better. assigning to moritz++ for testification.
NaN?
Perl 5 thinks:
$ perl -le 'print 0e99999999999'
0
$ perl -le 'print 1e99999999999'
inf
and I find its answers more pleasing.
Nicholas Clark
