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   Zeljko Vrba to DeMarcus   
   Re: How do you solve the general missing   
   11 Jul 12 18:40:01   
   
   From: mordor.nospam@fly.srk.fer.hr   
      
   On 2012-07-09, DeMarcus  wrote:   
      
   > I agree that exceptions is the right way to deal with problem that arises,   
   maybe my example wasn't the best. But consider you would like to have an enum   
   like this.   
   >   
   > enum SciVal   
   > {   
   >   NOT_AVAILABLE,   
   >   AVAILABLE,   
   >   NEG_INF,   
   >   POS_INF   
   > }   
      
   If this is your real use-case, then all these values are representable   
   in float and double types with not available being NaN.   
      
      
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