Re: [bug-gawk] Overflow to Infinity

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:23:50 -0400
> From: "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> So why is it desirable for gawk to have NaN behavior that doesn't
> match the standard? Isn't that more confusing?

It is not more confusing to me.  As to others, many programmers are
unaware of the weird behavior of NaN, so it might not be confusing for
them to learn that NaN == NaN yields true, for example.