"Anders J. Munch" <2...@jmunch.dk> writes: > Joel Goldstick wrote: > > I've been following along here, and it seems you haven't received > > the answer you want or need. > > So far I received exactly the answer I was expecting. 0 examples of > NaN!=NaN being beneficial.
Predictability and ease of diagnosis are the principles at work <URL:http://stackoverflow.com/a/1573715/70157>. You have already received examples of those. If those don't convince you of its usefulness, that's unfortunate, but at this point you are demonstrating a standard which is both unreasonably high (even the rationale of the committee doesn't convince you) and unreasonably low (you ask not for explanations but personal anecdotes). Good luck to you in your quest. -- \ “Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few | `\ find it difficult to admit the impossibility.” —Bertrand | _o__) Russell, _Power: A New Social Analysis_, 1938 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list