I'm totally ignorant of the history of this proposal, but I find it very compelling. Was there any valid flak? Any improvements, etc?
Jay On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Michael Sperber <sper...@deinprogramm.de> wrote: > > 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 > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
