[MATRIX-SIG] NumPy in the Python 1.5 era

[Andrew P. Mullhaupt]

At 03:40 PM 10/29/97 -0500, Paul Barrett wrote:
>I would also like the Matrix-SIG to decide on floating point
>exceptions.  Jim Hugunin and I discussed this briefly at the IPC6.  I
>suggested that we settle on the IEEE FPE, since it seems to me that
>all processors will eventually conform to this standard and that most
>do already, e.g. x86, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, etc.  (Bye, Bye VAX).  We
>could then define (or let the user define) one of the many NAN values
>to indicate a NULL data type.

Absolutely. I second this.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt

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