[r6rs-discuss] Two questions about writing inexact numbers

From: Alan Watson <alan>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:27:50 -0500

John Cowan replied (off-list, but forwarded here with his permission):

> If I mean "I want to be able to write a flonum on one implementation and
> guarantee (within range restrictions) that it will be read as a flonum
> on any other implementation",

Technically you can't do that at all, since the flonums are an
implementation-dependent subset of the inexact reals. As of 5.91
(I haven't checked more recently) it was conformant for the only
flonum to be 0.0.
Received on Tue May 29 2007 - 16:27:50 UTC