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Author belopolsky
Recipients alex, belopolsky, daniel.urban, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger
Date 2011-05-03.18:46:41
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> Undefined ordering means just that.

Means what?  Compare float behavior to

Decimal('1')
>>> Decimal(1).max(Decimal('nan'))
Decimal('1')
>>> max(Decimal('1'), Decimal('nan'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
 ..
decimal.InvalidOperation: comparison involving NaN

Raymond, you don't really need to stop the debate 4 minutes after the
bug has been reported.
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