NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Now, all this bothers me.  Not that I had to do some work to get stuff
>> to work in an imperfect world.  No, what bothers me is that this
>> behaviour was explicitly and deliberately put in for no good reason.
>
> Oh, you've read the IEEE-754 standard, and that's what it says? "We're
> going to specify this behaviour for NANs just to annoy people" perhaps?

You're confusing IEEE with Adobe. IEEE is pronounced
"Aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!", but it's Adobe that makes people scream
that.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/xee_photoshop_psd_code_rant/

ChrisA