On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > In a language like python with decent exceptions we do not need nans.
Not so. I could perhaps accept that we don't need signalling NaNs, as they can be replaced with exceptions, but quiet NaNs are by definition _not_ exceptions. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list