[r6rs-discuss] thinko in spec of fxcopy-bit-field

From: William D Clinger <will>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:06:50 -0400

Why, pray tell, must the third argument to fxcopy-bit-field
be less than (fixnum-width)?

I understand that the implementation in the 5.97 draft would
raise an exception without that restriction, but all that
proves is that the weaknesses and restrictions of the 5.97
draft make it unnecessarily difficult to program in this
new language we call Scheme.

Will
Received on Thu Sep 27 2007 - 17:06:50 UTC