infinity

Non-finite floating-point literals with contextual width, unary negation, and fail-closed integer contexts.

Syntax: ∞ | -∞ | nan

Category#

literal

Related#

• كسر
• عدد
• nan

Examples#

radix/corpus/literalia/infinity.fab (canonical · literal)#

Non-finite floating-point literals with contextual width, unary negation, and fail-closed integer contexts.

# =============================================================================
# infinity — Non-finite floating-point literals.
# =============================================================================
#
# What this teaches:
#   • `∞` is a positive floating-point literal, typed as f32 or f64 by context.
#   • `-∞` is unary negation of `∞`, not a second literal token.
#   • `nan` is the English contextual NaN literal (`nonnumerus` in the Latin
#     pack) and follows the same float-width law.
#   • Integer contexts fail closed: neither non-finite literal is a numerus.
#
# The rejected forms are deliberately kept as teaching comments rather than
# executable statements:
#   const numerus not_an_integer ← ∞
#   const numerus not_a_number ← nan
#   const numerus non_numerus_is_not_an_integer ← nonnumerus (la spelling)
#
# EXPECTED OUTPUT:
#   inf
#   inf
#   -inf
#   NaN

main {
    const f64 positive ← ∞
    const f32 narrow ← ∞
    const f64 negative ← -∞
    const f32 quiet ← nan

    print positive
    print narrow
    print negative
    print quiet
}

Expected output:

inf
inf
-inf
NaN