[Cfp-interest 1297] N2320

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:08:28 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>> N2320<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2320.htm> 2018/12/10 Tydeman, Precision and NAN/NAN(...) and INF/INFINITY
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>The first scheme seems arbitrary in some respects and might break all existing implementations. The impact could be lessened by allowing either of the infinity or NaN forms when p >= 9. Why require the nan(n-char-sequence) form when the n-char-sequence is not required to have any meaning? 
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Since the first scheme breaks all existing implementations, I am not pushing it
 (and I assume that WG14 will reject it).  I assume that the second scheme will
be liked by WG14.


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