[PD] Infinite and NaN float values?

Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 21:21:50 CEST 2010


On 08/16/2010 08:44 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

>> If so i guess infinities and NaN have been
>> recently introduced, haven't they?
>
> No. But Pd tries to guard against them.
>

Ok, that's why I had never seen them.

> Pd [/] guards against division by 0 by outputting 0 instead of
> +infinity,
> The reason why NaN and (to a lesser extent?) infinities are discouraged
> by non-scientific software is [...]

Yeah I understand and even like that.

But then I think it should either fully support them or fully "guard 
against" them and never ever let them surface, no?







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