David Van Horn <dvanh...@ccs.neu.edu> writes: > I talked with the PLTers who attended TFP and it was agreed that > inexact integers, a holdover from Scheme standards, are counter > intuitive. I wonder if it is worth doing away with them in Racket?
It's not just inexact integers. It's the entire idea of "inexactness" attached to number objects rather than operations: http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.pdf (No surprise we got huge amounts of flak from the old guard over this.) -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
