Re: Why is NaN used as extrapolation value?

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
>
> David Bateman skrev:
>> Søren Hauberg wrote:
>>> Would this cause incompatibilities? I mean, 'isnan(NA)' produces
>>> 'true' since 'NA' is a NaN.
>> I'm sure some users will find a way to make it incompatible like "(val
>> == NaN)" for example :-)
> Hey, now you're just making stuff up :-)
> That wouldn't work since 'NaN ==NaN' returns false.
Soren,

I have no objections to such a change, but only if it doesn't cause more
bug reports. If you are sure that the only way to check for NaN is the
"isnan" function then why not..

D.


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