h. $i wouldn't get NaN if $i is an integer,
though I expect everyone figured that one out. :)
-Original Message-
From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Low-level math op behavior
Okay, since we're finally talki
: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Low-level math op behavior
Okay, since we're finally talking defined math semantics, lets talk
the low-level ops.
All our math ops right now just quietly do their thing. If values
wrap, truncate, or otherwise fuzz out, we don
At 11:29 -0400 8/24/04, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>What I'm thinking is that we add an O or X (or E, I don't care. I suppose we could
>get more verbose there too) variant to the basic math ops which checks the result for
>validity and throws an exception on something exceptional happening.
For floatin
Okay, since we're finally talking defined math semantics, lets talk
the low-level ops.
All our math ops right now just quietly do their thing. If values
wrap, truncate, or otherwise fuzz out, we don't do anything special.
This is fine, and fast, and what many languages want. It is, however,
re
