Floating point exceptions?

[FlyingFrog]

In .net floating point types don't throw exceptions.
Any one has any idea why it should be so?
Thanks

 

[Custom24]

I'm guessing you mean this does not throw

Dim a, b, c as double (or single)
a = 1
b = 0
c = a/b 'in vb6 this would error

if so, in .net, the reason is because single and double have extra properties like MaxValue, PositiveInfinity, and more pertinently, NaN - not a number

To get one to throw, try this

dim a as single, b as double
b = double.maxvalue
a = b 'this should throw

Hope this helps

Mark

 

[FlyingFrog]

Thanks Custom,
Your answer is to the point.