Support for non-unique process labels?

[Peer Stritzinger]

> On 10. May 2021, at 11:37, Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> There are proposals to change that. However it is not true that Erlang do
>> not support NaNs, it "support" them, but only sNaNs while not supporting
>> qNaNs like other languages.
> No it does not. There is no representation for a NaN or infinite value,
> and there is no way to control the result of IEEE.754 invalid operations
> (since Erlang chose to only signal errors, which is incredibly
> unpractical for various numerical computations).

Thats what the “s” in “sNaNs” mean its signalling a error.  Whats missing is qNaNs .. “q” for quiet but people who miss them are working on that.

> And there is no
> difference between -0.0 and +0.0.

I’m not aware that Erlang does mishandle -0.0 and +0.0 what do you mean?

-- Peer 

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