Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit: > I agree with John's desire to provide specialised numerical semantics > for special uses (real time systems being dear to my heart, in > particular), but I worry vaguely about applications expecting > different semantics of basic operations like + based on some big nasty > global property of the implementation.
I actually think that fixnum-to-flonum overflow is pretty good for general purposes, too. It's true that + doesn't quite mean what you'd mathematically expect, but all that's saying is that you have exact arithmetic where convenient, and inexact arithmetic otherwise. -- 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
