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Re: NaN semantics

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Me
Date:
October 9, 2001 12:36
Subject:
Re: NaN semantics
Message ID:
021501c150f8$af8931c0$6501a8c0@nash1.tn.home.com
A quarter-baked idea:

How about punting by using nan (all lowercase)
as a boolean logic not-a-number, leaving NaN
for someone to (later) create an IEEE style
tristate not-a-number.

Later:

    $foo == NaN; # NaN literal is not same as nan literal
    use NaN;
    NaN(expr);


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