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Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto [message #63721 is a reply to message #63704]

Mon, 17 November 2008 12:40

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <MPG.238b5cb02f78dc04989768@news.giganews.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> 7. Make the NAN keyword default to 1 everywhere. Why not!?

Maybe my earlier post has made it around yet.

I think this is a bad idea. One of the fundamentally
great insights in the IEEE standard is that NaNs and Infs
propagate through calculations.

I don't want the default IDL behavior to be "hide the existence
of NaNs". This is a good way to create errors that are very
difficult to track down, or worse yet, are never found at all.

Cheers, Ken

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		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 19 November 2008 06:28
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 November 2008 13:34
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: weitkamp on Tue, 18 November 2008 12:56
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: R.Bauer on Tue, 18 November 2008 12:41
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 11:13
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: pgrigis on Tue, 18 November 2008 11:08
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 November 2008 09:37
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 17 November 2008 12:40
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: lbnc on Mon, 17 November 2008 22:18
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: David Fanning on Mon, 17 November 2008 10:01
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: wlandsman on Wed, 19 November 2008 09:24
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: R.Bauer on Thu, 20 November 2008 01:11
		Re: A Simple IDL Manifesto By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 20 November 2008 08:42

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