Re: Indeterminate math

2002-10-15 Thread Ken Williams
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 04:44 AM, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > People have used the terms "error" and "exception" interchangably in > this disucssion. To me, an "error" is something that stops program > execution while an "exception" may or may not stop execution depending > on what

Re: Indeterminate math

2002-10-15 Thread Ken Williams
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 07:05 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > This came up at YAPC::Europe. Someone [1] wanted to know if 1/0 would > produce a divide by zero error in Perl 6, or if it would return a value > representing an indeterminate result (undef?) It would make more sense > for