Again, I think it would be _really_ weird for simple value comparisons to throw.
But ... why?
You may say that NaN > 0 is defined as False, but we know that's not how programmers think, most of the time.
In code like if(y > 0) steer_car_to_left() I don't want the compiler or the IEEE standard to make any choices for me! Let it throw, so emergency systems can kick in.
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That's easy: y > 0 is False, not NaN.
You may not think this is wise, but this is very much how comparisons with NaN are defined.
And I think this is better than exception raising. Again, I think it would be _really_ weird for simple value comparisons to throw.
But ... why?
You may say that NaN > 0 is defined as False, but we know that's not how programmers think, most of the time.
In code like if(y > 0) steer_car_to_left() I don't want the compiler or the IEEE standard to make any choices for me! Let it throw, so emergency systems can kick in.