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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:45:43 -0700
Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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>>>>>> OTOH why in particular would you want to initialise them with zeros? I
>>>>>> often initialise arrays to nan which is useful for debugging.
>>>>
>>>> Is this some kind of joke?  What has this list become?
>>>
>>> It's a useful debugging technique to initialize memory to distinctive
>>> values that should never occur in real data.
>>
>> If you're doing this, you're doing something wrong.   Please give me
>> the hex value for NaN so I can initialize with my array.
>
> It is clear that you know as much about debugging as you do about objects
> and message passing [...] can see why the
> BDFL described you as an embarrassment, and if he didn't, he certainly
> should have done.

Clearly the python list has been taken over by TheKooks.  Notice he
did not respond to the request.  Since we are talking about digital
computers (with digital memory), I'm really curious what the hex value
for NaN is to initialize my arrays....

All hail chairman Meow.  Dismissed.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington