<div dir='auto'>I don't recall the details. But I think we let a NaN be EQ to itself, but not EQL or =. Since they were never supposed to be = to anything, even themselves, we decided to print them unreadably. I don't think we printed anything to distinguish different values, since that would kind of go against the idea that they have no identity.<div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 3, 2018 10:49 AM, Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br /><div><br /><blockquote><div>On 3 Nov 2018, at 13:26, Antoniotti Marco <<a href="mailto:antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it">antoniotti.marco@disco.unimib.it</a>> wrote:</div><br /><div><div><br /><br /><blockquote>On Nov 3, 2018, at 24:54 , Bob Cassels <<a href="mailto:bobcassels@netscape.net">bobcassels@netscape.net</a>> wrote:<br /><br />Of course they are represented internally the same way other floating point values are.<br /><br />Are you asking how to print those values? (Print -0.0 like that. Print + and - infinity some way they can be read by the reader. Preferably some way that's not otherwise a legal token. Probably print NaNs using the #unreadable syntax. I don't remember how that works. I don't remember what we did at Symbolics, even though I'm probably the one who did it. I can ask around, if you care.) Or something else?<br /></blockquote><br />Thank you.<br /><br />I do not really care about printing and reading NaNs and it looks like most implementations do read and write IEEE infinities.<br /><br />Th problem is that ANSI does not talk about infinities and NaNs, so the issue I have is what to do with them in a “portable” library (YMMV).<br /><br />I was toying with the idea of using symbolic constants for infinities, but it looks like using IEEE infinities directly is a better - and simpler - way to follow.<br /></div></div></blockquote><br /></div><div>Note that there are a big number of NANs. If you want to print them readably, you definitely need a syntax able to deal with all of them, not just a couple of infinities.</div><div><br /></div><br /><div>
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