[MATRIX-SIG] Much ado about nothingness.

Jim Fulton jim.fulton@digicool.com
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 16:35:49 -0400


David Ascher wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Jody Winston wrote:
> 
> > Here's a simple Missing class:
> > [...]
> 
> Note that a version of the Numeric and umath modules which know about
> Missing's is also needed, so that take(x,y) and log(x) do the right thing.

Right.  Basically, *anything* that deals with data at the C
level would have to check for missing data.

This is especially problematic when dealling with external 
libraries.

Jim

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