From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Apr 12 15:39:24 2006
Subject: Re: NaN
From: "Shai Ayal" <shaiay at gmail dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "octave maintainers mailing list" <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:37:45 +0300

Sorry for the misunderstanding --  I do not see a point in fixing this
in octave -- it works.

I was asking this for my own use in octplot, I was afraid there was
something wrong with these methods. I am sorry of this mailing list is
not appropriate.

Shai

On 4/12/06, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> 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
>