Robert Weir exclaimed:
> Makes me wonder if we want to formally adopt IEEE 754 floating point
> conventions for things like1/0 == +Infinity, but 0/0==NaN, etc., at least
> in the processing model. Implementations could collapse this all into a
> single Error string for the user interface if they desired.
To the best of my knowledge, in all implementations any such values
(1/0, 0/0, etc.) are treated as an Error, which then propagates through other
functions as an Error (except for the functions noted specially).
If we want to relax this (for future implementations), what would you suggest?
--- David A. Wheeler
