> Does anyone disagree that that's a bug? Should we back-patch
> a fix, or just change it in HEAD? Given the lack of user
> complaints, I lean a bit towards the latter, but am not sure.
The other functions and operators pay attention to not give an error
when the input is Inf or 0. exp() and power() are at least
inconsistent by doing so. I don't think this behavior is useful.
Although it'd still be less risky to fix it in HEAD only.