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| From: | John W. Eaton |
| Subject: | [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59830] Architecture-dependent results for arithmetic operations involving NA |
| Date: | Sat, 9 Jan 2021 13:11:41 -0500 (EST) |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 |
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #59830 (project octave):
The specific value of NA was chosen to be exactly the same as the
corresponding value in R so that saving and loading data in binary format
would preserve the value when transferring data between Octave and R. I had
initially hoped we would maybe modify functions in Octave to actually respect
NA values when appropriate, but that hasn't ever happened since NA was added
to Octave nearly 20 years ago. Maybe it would make more sense to just
deprecate and drop NA from Octave?
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