Re: gawk infinity issues

[John Cowan]

Paul Eggert scripsit:
> "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > How do you establish what is "historical practice"?
> 
> It depends on the context, but here I am referring to the way awk
> behaved before people started futzing with strtod.  1979, say.

In that case, a --traditional switch or TRADITIONAL environment variable
could be used to preserve the old behavior.  In 1979, inf and nan were
not part of the floating-point landscape.

Furthermore, I don't think it's very good awk style to depend on the
numeric value of a digit-free string.

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