Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values?

2003-07-17 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Paul A. Bristow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Thanks but this still leaves me feeling that there is a need for a | 'Standard and Portable' way of indicating 'missing value', sorry if I sounded negative, that wasn't the intent. I would to make sure we all undertsand and agree on what is going

RE: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values?

2003-07-17 Thread Paul A. Bristow
EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis | Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:46 PM | To: Boost mailing list | Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values? | | | "Paul A. Bristow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | | Signalling NaNs are used to indicate miss

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values?

2003-07-16 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Paul A. Bristow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Signalling NaNs are used to indicate missing initialization values. | | This is OK for catching missing initialization by mistake - but not | for OK for deliberately missing because there really is no value | (measurement missing). There is not

RE: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values?

2003-07-16 Thread Paul A. Bristow
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis | Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 9:22 AM | To: Boost mailing list | Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan | | | "Paul A. Bristow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | There is also a single IEEE FP