Re: Motion P1788/M0006.04_Level_2_Multi-format NO
On 2009-09-07 09:46:46 +0200, Frédéric Goualard wrote:
> My vote is NO because the associated position paper definitely
> assumes---even if peripherally---the implicit (e.g., [-oo, -oo] and
> [+oo, +oo] have no meaning, which should make them NaIs, whatever
> that object is) or explicit existence of NaIs, a concept I am not in
> favour of.
This is not what the paper says. "No meaning" currently implies
undefined behavior, not the existence of some form of NaI.
Having to deal with such meaningless representations could
imply performance penalties.
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