"John Nagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | If Python numerics don't define | +INF, -INF, and NaN, along with the tests for them, that's a | flaw in the language.
Are you volunteering to fix the 'flaw'? CPython floating point numerics are currently defined to be C doubles and whatever else the particular compiler/hardware provides. But Tim Peters said at least 5 years ago that a volunteer could try to improve portability. Various people have since talked about doing something. | We can assume IEEE floating point at this | late date; it's been standard for twenty years and Java assumes it. Not all processors running Python even have floats ;-) In any case, the IEEE standard did not seem to define a standard C binding. Neither did the C89 committee. So gcc and msc differ on how to spell such things. Not everyone is satisfied with the Java solution. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
