Re: unsafe floats

Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> A more important question is if we should give errors or produce
> Infinity and NaN on mathematical operations. That is, should
> operations like sqrt(-1.0) produce NaN or give an error.

This needs to be definable by the user.  IEEE 754 compliant systems 
should provide a way to set the behavior in case of exception 
conditions such as these.  Maybe the C library provides one, or we need 
to catch this ourselves.