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List:       python-ideas
Subject:    Re: [Python-ideas] Equality of same NaN instances?
From:       Guido van Rossum <guido () python ! org>
Date:       2011-04-28 15:44:08
Message-ID: BANLkTikABaYmTzGDN3Mn0=Pdc9agJ+V6xA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Carl M. Johnson
<cmjohnson.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
> This has been discussed before. See
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2010-March/thread.html#6945
> etc. for background on the issue.
>
> My two cents? Follow what C does/the IEEE spec unless there's a really
> compelling reason to do something else.

Ah, the compelling difference is that the IEEE spec only talks about
values, whereas Python also has to have an opinion about object.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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