Perry Greenfield wrote:
I don't recall if there was disagreement about this being useful,
probably not
but perhaps there was disagreement that it should always do this.
absolutely, and I think there was a wide range of opinions about how usefull (and or critical!) this is.
numarray allows one to customize how errors are handled. You can choose:
1) to silently ignore all errors. 2) print a warning message (default) 3) raise an exception.
One may separately set one of these three behaviors for each of the 4 ieee categories of floating point errors, namely
1) invalid results (i.e., NaNs) 2) divide by zeros (Infs) 3) overflows 4) underflows
Fabulous!!! You folks are wonderfull! I guess it's time to make the switch to numarray...I've been waiting for a compelling reason! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov