I would count this as a bug fix rather than a compatibility break. (my vote is non-binding, of course)
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Bill Barker <billwbar...@verizon.net> wrote: > Currently StatUtils.sum(double []) (as well as most other statistics that > operate on arrays) returns NaN on a zero length array. As pointed out in > the Jira issue, this is not the conventional treatment of a summation over > the empty set (which would return zero) in the mathematical world. I would > definitely want to change this in 3.0. But I'm on the fence for how much of > an incompatible change this would be for 2.2. > > The change is simple, and I'm volunteering to do the work. I just wanted > to ping the list for opinions on how much breakage we can allow in 2.2. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
