From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: min, max and nans Date: 19 Jun 2003 01:36:47 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765n30xgw.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87ade1t1p7.fsf@zip.com.au> <87d6ih5okm.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87d6hgw5wh.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055980130 23062 80.91.224.249 (18 Jun 2003 23:48:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 01:48:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19SmfY-0005zd-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:48:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Smee-00070E-LY for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19Smdi-0006oO-Jn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19SmcI-0005u1-PY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.dokom.net ([195.253.8.218]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19SmVE-0003Ta-Pr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway43.dip206.dokom.de ([195.138.43.206] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 19SmVR-0003vj-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:38:21 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7707 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 2003 23:36:47 -0000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87d6hgw5wh.fsf@zip.com.au> Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2557 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2557 Kevin Ryde writes: > I notice C99 fmin and fmax return the other operand when one is a NaN, > and return NaN only when both are NaNs. > > I tend to think of nan as indicating something evil, and it should be > propagated. But the c99 way would be a possibility to consider. Yep. Does the IEEE standard say aomething about max and min? -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel