Mark H Weaver scripsit: > I should mention that Scheme implementations differ in how hard they > work to preserve exactness information. For example, (log 1) and > (sin 0) might return either 0 or 0.0 depending on the implementation, > and (imag-part 1.0) might return either 0 or 0.0.
That behavior is licensed by the wording of R5RS/R7RS 6.2.2, which permits non-rational operations to produce inexact results even if exact results are possible. > In many (most?) implementations, (imag-part 1.0) => 0.0, Both behaviors are licensed by 6.2.2. Rational operations on inexact numbers can produce exact results (but are not required to) if the exact number can't affect the results. ComplexRepresentations explains which Schemes support and don't support exact complex numbers and complex numbers of mixed exactness (which are considered inexact by R7RS). -- In my last lifetime, John Cowan I believed in reincarnation; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in this lifetime, [email protected] I don't. --Thiagi _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
