[Haskell-cafe] Proper Handling of Exceptional IEEE Floating Point Numbers

Roman Leshchinskiy rl at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Apr 23 12:20:00 EDT 2010


On 23/04/2010, at 01:34, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:

> I'd suggest that compare involving a NaN should yield
> 
>    error "violation of the law of the excluded middle"

Please think of the poor guys trying to write high-performance code in Haskell!

Roman




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