[R6RS] Naming for fixnum / flonum ops
Anton van Straaten
anton
Mon Jul 4 03:43:54 EDT 2005
Michael Sperber wrote:
> Will's proposal uses FX+ / FL+ as examples for the fixed-precision
> operators. What should procedures like QUOTIENT be called in this
> case? FX-QUOTIENT or FXQUOTIENT?
Of those two, I'd pick the latter. I notice that Chez does the same:
http://www.scheme.com/csug/numeric.html
An alternative would be to pick some delimiter that's less ambiguous
than "-" in this context, e.g. FX:QUOTIENT. In that case, names like
FX+ would still omit the delimiter, because they don't need the same
sort of separation between parts of their name.
Anton
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