On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:13:13AM -0700, Andrew Barnert wrote:
On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:52, Steven D'Aprano
wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 03:31:05PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
I don't think there is any dispute over what math.floor(inf) should return. POSIX, C99, IEEE and probably many other standards agree that inf should be returned as long as the resulting type can represent it.
Why don't we add an integer infinity?
I was thinking the same thing. [...] That does raise the question of whether there should be an int NaN...
Ah, you had to raise that issue! Now it's sure to be rejected! *wink* An int NAN can and should be considered only when there is a clear need for it. Since Python tends to prefer raising exceptions than returning NANs, e.g. 0/0 raises, I'm not sure that there are any operations that return ints which would benefit from an int NAN. (Personally, I'd rather get NANs than exceptions, but apparently I'm in the minority.) -- Steven