Andrew Reilly scripsit: > If I'm dealing with integers, I really, really don't want them > being coerced into flonums, because that means that my results > are *wrong*. If we're talking about modes where there is not > implicit promotion to bignums (and that's useful, because > sometimes time and space are important constraints), I'd like > another mode that raised an exception on fixnum overflow, so > that my program could stop nicely (and perhaps be debugged.)
Get (or configure) a small Scheme that's -%bignums -%inexact. -- Is not a patron, my Lord [Chesterfield], John Cowan one who looks with unconcern on a man http://www.ccil.org/~cowan struggling for life in the water, and when [email protected] he has reached ground encumbers him with help? --Samuel Johnson _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
