On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Pondering the NaN problem further, I think we can relatively easily >> argue that reflexive behaviour at the object level fits within the >> scope of IEEE754. > > Now we're talking. :-) >
Note that Kahan is very critical of Java's approach, but NaN objects' comparison is not on his list of Java warts: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
