[Openmcl-devel] representing infinity

[Gary King]

Is there a way in OpenMCL to represent IEEE positive and negative 
infinity? An apropos on NAN gives me (among other things):

  CCL::IEEE-DOUBLE-FLOAT-SIGNALLING-NAN-BIT,  Value: 51
  CCL::IEEE-SINGLE-FLOAT-SIGNALLING-NAN-BIT,  Value: 22
  CCL::NAN-OR-INFINITY-P, Def: FUNCTION
  CCL::NANNING
  CCL::PRINT-A-NAN, Def: FUNCTION

and one on "INFINITY" gives:

CCL::INFINITY-P, Def: FUNCTION

This is promising but even after looking at the source code it's not 
clear to me how to produce something such that (infinity-p <something>) 
returns t.

Thanks,
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Gary Warren King, Lab Manager
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