On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 3:31:58 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Rustom Mody 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.
My impression (maybe I am wrong): "Catch an exception and ignore it" is a way of converting signalling to quiet With the added advantage of being able to tweak the specs of what happens when nan op normal to one's taste -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
