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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error |
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Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:21:44 +0200 |
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On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 02:47:01AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Felix scripsit:
>
> > * Those who want IEEE behaviour can have it using "fpexpt".
>
> True. However, I tend to expect that the fp* functions will provide
> efficient versions of the regular procedures (because they know their
> arguments are flonums) rather than returning different results.
+1 on that. Having the fp (or fx, for that matter) procedures behave
differently from the "generic" ones on flonums is unintuitive and seems
to me like trouble in the making.
Cheers,
Peter
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- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error, Felix, 2011/07/02
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error, Moritz Heidkamp, 2011/07/04
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error, Peter Bex, 2011/07/04
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error, John Cowan, 2011/07/04
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error, Aleksej Saushev, 2011/07/13