Tim suggested:

   > How about punting by using nan (all lowercase)
   > as a boolean logic not-a-number, leaving NaN
   > for someone to (later) create an IEEE style
   > tristate not-a-number.

Err, I think not. Having C<NaN> and C<nan> that differ so markedly in
behaviour is probably a Recipe For Disaster. Better to have a totally
different name if we must cowtow to the IEEE.

Besides, I know you just want this so you can:

        write nan and pop;

;-)

Damian

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