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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
October 9, 2001 05:07
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
20011009130708.X82110@pobox.com
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:39:47PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> Sigh. I *do* see your point of view (Laziness), but I still have immense
> difficulty with the notion that:
> 
>         $x == NaN
> 
> doesn't return true if $x contains NaN.

I agree. The difficulty I have is that it is the comparison that IEEE
define to return false. Which means

  if ('cat' != 'dog')

would not yeild the same result as

  unless('cat' == 'dog')

Which I think would lead to a lot of confusion when debugging.

Graham.

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