Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:

[…]

 > We are, since we compile to C, which (AFAIK) is explicitly tied to
 > IEEE floating point representation and semantics.  At least, it is on
 > modern machines.  We're already using it everywhere (except in the
 > division case)

        IIRC, the issue was already discussed in this list not so long
        ago.

        Unfortunately, there was no consensus.

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