[Python-ideas] float('∞')=float('inf')

[Philipp A.]

2013/7/15 Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws>

> I even tend to use "thing is Ellipses" instead of "thing is ..."
> because it reads better -- "thing == ∞" just goes back to that.
>

At least “...” is correct, while “Ellips*e*s” isn’t. it’s “Ellips*i*s”.

but as said: ∞ can be in data, and other than e.g. π, it unambiguously and
always means the same as “infinity”. there is a reason why float accepts
“inf(inity)” and “NaN”, but no other prose. float() imho should accept all
literals for values it can represent, and ∞ is just a symbol and therefore
synonym for “infinity”. if there would be a symbol for NaN, i’d propose to
include it as well.
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