From: David Rush <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] The numeric tower
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:30:26 +0100

> 2009/9/23 Shiro Kawai <[email protected]>:
> > I would rather prefer an implemenation returning answers as precise
> > as possible by default, and having an option to trade precision
> > for speed when necessary.
> 
> I kinda thought that was the whole point of exact->inexact.

Yeah, that's the building block, but the point of discussion
as I understood is that it's too cumbersome to go into each
source and inserting exact->inexact around.  Thus some argued
for making coercion to bignums explicit.  I argued for keeping
exactness by default, and implementation may provide some
option to switch otherwise (pragma, declare, or command-line switch).

--shiro




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