[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Formal Comment: NaN should be considered a number, not a real

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:54:30 -0700

Alan Watson wrote:
> SCM is not a fast implementation of Scheme. Therefore, that something
> provokes a 2% change in the run-time of a program in SCM does not imply
> that it will provoke similarly small changes in other implementations.
>



You are applying a good rule of thumb but, in this case:
it's a lot more complicated than that. Jaffer has a good
point (which is *almost* an invariant) but.... I'm not sure
it's all that important or on topic to say, here, more than:
"you ought to look into that."


This margin is too small,
-t
Received on Mon Jul 02 2007 - 02:54:30 UTC