On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:40:36PM -0400, Peng Zang wrote:
> Yeah, that always seemed broken to me.  If two things are physically equal 
> (they occupy the same memory space) it doesn't make sense for them to be 
> structurally unequal (contain different content).  Personally, one of the 
> first things I did is redefined (=) to fix this.

It's not broken at all, but complient with a common and longstanding
idiom (at least amoung scientists working with numerical codes.) The way
we test for NaN is by comparing to itself, eg:

    if x = x then (* x is a number *) else (* x is NaN *)

Matt