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Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes

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Date Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:25:44 +0200
From "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk>
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I wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Oh, you've read the IEEE-754 standard, and that's what it says? "We're going 
>> to specify this behaviour for NANs just to annoy people" perhaps? 
> I was referring to the deliberate choice to enforce IEEE-754 rules in Python. 
> There is no force of law that requires Python to do so.
>

And just to be clear, I didn't mean python-dev did this to annoy people either. 
I just meant that the choice made is not supported by any use case, so there's 
no upside to outweigh the problems it creates.

At least I've yet to hear any use case. So far I'm 0 beers in debt.

regards, Anders

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NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-08 16:53 +0200
  Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-08 17:13 +0000
    Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 03:21 +1000
    Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-08 21:02 +0200
      Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-09 00:10 +0000
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-09 00:57 -0400
          Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-09 06:43 +0000
            Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 16:52 +1000
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-09 17:08 +0200
          Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-09 16:53 +0000
            Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 11:26 -0600
            Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-09 19:44 +0200
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-10 01:13 +1000
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-09 18:24 +0200
    Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-08 21:25 +0200
  Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 20:07 -0700

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