From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Apr 12 15:28:21 2006
Subject: Re: NaN
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Shai Ayal" <shaiay at gmail dot com>
Cc: "octave maintainers mailing list" <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:28:12 -0400

On 12-Apr-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:

| On 4/12/06, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
| 
| > I didn't know about strtod ("NaN", 0), but I'm not sure I would have
| > used this method anyway, even if I had.
| 
| Can you explain why?

Probably not.

If it matters, and there is some better way for the Octave sources,
the please propose a patch.  Please also explain why the change is
needed since what we have seems to be working fine as it is.

jwe