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List:       perl6-language
Subject:    Re: Some questions about using NaN and Inf
From:       75.207.184.120
Date:       2007-10-08 13:35:13
Message-ID: 081020070835138380%brian.d.foy () gmail ! com
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In article <4709FDD2.9060405@barco.com>, TSa
<Thomas.Sandlass@barco.com> wrote:

> The only operator that can be used to investigate these values should
> be ~~ and the given/when statement that uses it. 

Why should that be true? What's wrong with treating it as an object
like anything else? 

The trick is limiting the number of special cases and exceptions to the
rule so beginners can form the right conceptual model of everything.
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