Piers Cawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] on 9 October 2001 09:02 wrote:
> But there are going to be problems in some cases if we change the
> behaviour of NaN to the perl semantics. There are cases where the IEEE
> behaviour is *useful* dammit.
Indeed, we certainly don't want sqrt(-1) == sqrt(-2)
Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] on 3 October 2001 12:05 wrote:
> But I really really doubt if there's any computer language in
> the world
C (C99 anyway[1]), C++[2], SQL99[3] to name but three
[1] _Pragma, _Complex,...
[2] bit_and, wchar_t, ...
[3] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
Richard Cox
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