[Rock-dev] [Discussion] usage of infinity for "no-data" tagging

[Alexander Duda]

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 10:56 +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> Along the way to Sauc-E, I realized that Infinity started to be used 
> here and there as a "special value". For instance, to say "no data in 
> this field"
> 
> Would that be a policy that everyone is comfortable with ? (I personally 
> don't really have an opinion ...)
> 
> Sylvain

For me Infinity is more or less equal to not defined. Therefore I think
it is a nice way to disable certain options without having an additional
flag. Maybe NaN would be also a way to express it.

But I am not sure if we can set the values from ruby or orogen. If not I
would drop the idea.

--> property 'val1','double','NaN' would be nice 

Alex

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