Re: The Great Integer Division Controversy

1992-02-21 Thread jhf
Folks, There was a small omission in the Integral declaration I just sent; the first line should be class (Real a, Ix a) => Integral a where Similarly, the Real declaration begins class (Num a, Enum a) => Real a where This is from Mikael Rittri's proposal. --Joe

The Great Integer Division Controversy

1992-02-21 Thread jhf
Folks, Here is my decision about `div` and friends: I've decided to back off from the proposal to incorporate Common Lisp's capabilities, since it's probably just too much stuff to consider in such a short timeframe. (I also suspect that the Scheme designers correctly decided that the CL stuff w