[r6rs-discuss] >= should not act on subversion, but rather version

From: Carl Eastlund <cce>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:47:44 -0400

On 6/14/07, AndrevanTonder <andre at het.brown.edu> wrote:
> By the way, why not have versions be exact decimals
> instead of lists, so one could write things like
>
> (and (>= 5.45) (< 6))
>
> more concisely.

Because 5.45 is ambiguous between (5 45) and (5 4 5). Digits impose
an artificial restriction to the range 0-9.

-- 
Carl Eastlund

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