Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: > This is just sophistry. If Python was more popular than C at the > time Prof. Kahan wrote this, he would write "in the syntax of Python."
I doubt it. C has a standard that explicitly states that < must signal on comparison with NaNs. Python doesn't. Alexander, I've read both these documents (Kahan's lecture notes and IEEE 754-2008) many many times. I've looked hard in the past for language that would give this exact connection, about < signalling. It just isn't there in either document, and it's dishonest to claim it is. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11986> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
