On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 11:05 -1000, Shiro Kawai wrote:
> From: David Rush <[email protected]>
> > 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).
Right. It was me who expressed frustration with the cumbersome
nature of exact->inexact, but honestly, it was just a test balloon.
I released it, now I know which way the wind is blowing, and I'm
ready to shut up about it now. Others apparently find value in
the behavior that I find annoying, and precedent is on their
side, so let R7 continue the established rule.
Bear
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