update guidance around division by zero#1153
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update guidance around division by zero#1153jeremyhuiskamp wants to merge 1 commit intomunificent:masterfrom
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Ruby doesn't throw an exception when dividing by 0.0, which is the equivalent to dividing by 0 in Lox. Rather, it does the same thing as java (and javascript, and IEEE754) in returning Infinity/-Infinity/NaN. Python seems to be the outlier here.
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Ruby doesn't throw an exception when dividing by 0.0, which is the equivalent to dividing by 0 in Lox. Rather, it does the same thing as java (and javascript, and IEEE754) in returning Infinity/-Infinity/NaN. Python seems to be the outlier here.
Tested on ruby 2.6 and 3.2.2.