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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error
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Alex Shinn |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error |
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Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:51:47 +0900 |
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Felix
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error
> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:21:44 +0200
>
>> 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.
>
> Is this intuition, or are you simply being used to it?
The only intuitive thing is the nipple. After that,
everything is learned.
--
Alex
- 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