From: Alaric Snell-Pym <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Proposed NON-features for small Scheme, part 4D: inexact precisions Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:46:36 +0100
> > On 23 Sep 2009, at 8:11 pm, Shiro Kawai wrote: > > > An interesting approach is taken by a Ruby implementor > > (Koichi Sasada): Taking one tag bit from exponent (instead of > > mantissa) of IEEE double floats. [...] > > Awesome trick! I'd really love: > > a) to collect all such clever tricks, and write them up somewhere, as > they seem to be very widely distributed and hard to find Indeed. When I wrote up Gauche's flonum handing[1] I tried to find literatures for those tricks I had heard of, but couldn't find many. I guess these tricks have been regarded as implementation hacks and their inventors haven't bothered to record them. [1] http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1408681.1408687 --shiro _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
