> On Nov 24, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Unfortunately, nan is defined to not be less than or greater than any > number and sorting works only when you supply a transitive predicate > and it seems difficult to change either of these things.
In my mind, the alternative would be to signal an error; I’m having a very hard time imagining the programmer who would be legitimately unhappy about getting an error here. Or perhaps the concern is adding time to inner inner inner loops? John > > Robby > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 3:10 AM, 'John Clements' via dev-redirect > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Currently, a +nan.0 does an interesting thing to sorting: >> >> #lang racket >> >> (sort '(1 3 5 +nan.0 2 4 6) >) >> >> yields >> >> '(5 3 1 +nan.0 6 4 2) >> >> Is this the answer we want? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/675231ca-96b0-4039-94e4-7a744278c586%40mtasv.net. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAL3TdOM3%3D%2BTJGkAZFKAagfN5OiekC8c%2BtNpmt%3DrQZJS8ovtWHA%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/a8b0aa6e-8994-4885-8b5d-c945c0162376%40mtasv.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
