[Jprogramming] NaN, p., and control structures

[Louis de Forcrand]

Obviously nobody would ever enter
if. 0 > _.
them self. I guess if primitives never produce _. then we need not worry about it; but in the very slight off-chance that a bug lets one slip through, wouldn’t it be safer if an error is thrown?

Anyhow, this topic’s problem is solved; gotta stay up to date!

Louis

> On 30 Dec 2017, at 01:32, bill lam <bbill.lam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> IMO the current behavior is acceptable for
> if. 0 > _. do. etc…
> 
> The user who wrote this sentence must have some special task to accomplish
> and can just skip the condition depending on what he/she think the
> condition should be true or false or signaling error.
> 
> If the _. is a result of operation on primitive, then it will signal an
> error before passing to control structure.i
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