Re: Discussion: What to do if NaN appears in a non-coordinate field?

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 31 March 2012, pl...@pi... wrote:
>  > If NaN appears in the x, y, or z coordinate then the point
>  > is rejected on input.
> 
> I thought when I brought this up a couple of months back the point I 
> raised was that this was NOT happening when NaN was in first column. It 
> was not being parsed as NaN but "NaN".

Please refresh my memory.
I thought the issue there was that some runtime C libraries accept
the string NaN as a valid numerical input (gcc for one) but others do
not (MSVC for example).  That is unfortunate, but so far as I can see
is outside the range of things we can fix in gnuplot.
 
> I presume whatever action you decide upon, this will now get corrected. 
> So if anyone sees a problem with such a change (like this is a feature 
> not a bug) please shout now.

I think it's a bug, but the bug is outside of gnuplot.

But maybe I am mis-remembering the details of the problem you encountered.

	Ethan