I am using Chicken Version 4.3.0 with Arch Linux. I'll try with a newer version, and see what happens.
Thanks, Hugo. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Kon Lovett <klov...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Sorry, don't know what to tell you. 'flonum-print-precision' appears to be > undocumented in the current manual. However, the code in > 'C_number_to_string' (the actual primitive for 'number->string') makes use > of the value. Both the core printer and the numbers printer use this > routine. > > When 'gcvt' is available it is used in preference to the 'printf' family. > The only platform I know of that states it doesn't have 'gcvt' is MacOS X; > it does but deprecated. I don't know about your platform. I am using Chicken > Version 4.3.5 w/ MacoS 10.5 so YMMV. > > On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Hugo Arregui wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Kon Lovett <klov...@pacbell.net> wrote: >>> > <snip> >>> >>> #;9> (exact->inexact (/ 1 7)) >>> 0.142857142857142849212692681248881854116916656494140625 >>> #;10> (flonum-print-precision 15) >>> 100 >>> #;11> (exact->inexact (/ 1 7)) >>> 0.142857142857143 >> >> But I don't see the same results: >> >> #;1> (flonum-print-precision) >> 15 >> #;2> (/ 1 7) >> 0.142857142857143 >> #;3> (flonum-print-precision 23) >> 15 >> #;4> (/ 1 7) >> 0.14285714285714285 >> #;5> (flonum-print-precision 100) >> 23 >> #;6> (/ 1 7) >> 0.14285714285714285 >> #;7> >> >> Cheers, >> Hugo. > > Best Wishes, > Kon > > > _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
