On 30/12/19 3:47 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'd like to understand the use-case here. I guess it is "signalling NANs are an error, quiet NANs are missing data". Am I right?
I'm having trouble seeing what signalling NaNs are useful for in general. If something has gone badly enough wrong that an exception is warranted, wouldn't you rather get it at the point where it happens, rather than wait until the next time the result is used? -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FG57EIV5MZPKWHZRZ56D3VPEWDCGPMQU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
