[Ecls-list] Extension to infinity and NaN?

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:50 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Having (/ 1 0) signal no error violates the POLA for quite some users,
> and is mathematically incorrect (infinity is no number). When does it
> come handy?

What about (/ 1.0 0.0)? I strongly feel that (/ 1 0) _must_ signal an
error because it is rational arithmetic. On the other hand, floating
point arithmetics behaves differently, and infinites and NaNs are quite
common out there.

Juanjo