[Python-ideas] Suggestion: Extend integers to include iNaN

[David Mertz]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 11:01 AM Steve Barnes <gadgetsteve at live.co.uk>
wrote:

> Adding inf & -inf would be nice but to do so we would need a better name
> than NaNAwareInt.
>

My placeholder name is deliberately awkward.  I think it gestures at the
concept for discussion purposes though.


> It would also be nice if Decimal(NaNAwareInt('nan')) = Decimal('NaN'),
> float(NaNAwareInt('nan')) = float('nan'), etc.


This seems like bad behavior given (per IEEE-754 spec):

>>> float('nan') == float('nan')
False
>>> nan = float('nan')
>>> nan == nan
False


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