Brian Mastenbrook scripsit: > But, of course, I don't think it *is* reasonable to expect IEEE > doubles. Implementations which use IEEE singles don't provide any more > exact precision than 24-bit fixnums. This is the much more likely > scenario in a small Scheme.
Only if they run on chips too small or too low-power to do floating point at all. Even ARM systems, though not all ARM chips, have FP. > [...] and begins to sound like an exercise in defending your favorite > R5RS implementation [...] In defending its legitimacy, not as an implementation of R5RS (which it is) but going forward. -- What has four pairs of pants, lives John Cowan in Philadelphia, and it never rains http://www.ccil.org/~cowan but it pours? [email protected] --Rufus T. Firefly _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
