On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 5:39 PM Finn Mason <[email protected]> wrote:

> Or the NaNs could be treated as zeros and a warning raised:
>

Absolutely not! NaN in no way means zero, ever. We should never provide a
known incorrect result.


> I do feel there should be a catchable warning but not an outright
> exception, and a non-NaN value should still be returned.
>

I disagree -- warnings are way too easy to ignore. Give people a way to
opt-in to silent NaN handling, but don't rely on a warning to let people
know they need to think about it.

In any case, the current behavior should definitely be changed.
>

I think we all agree on that !

-CHB

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