Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com>:
> In addition to what others have written, I will add one thing. There
> are certainly situations where raising an exception is bad. Consider
> all the people in the scientific computing community doing fancy
> linear algebra sorts of things, often with missing data. They
> generally want NaN propagated and not have some long running
> calculation crash in the middle.
Do the scientific computers mind:
>>> 1 / 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
or would they prefer their fancy linear-algebraic computation to just
forge on?
Marko
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