Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error

[Felix]

From: Alex Shinn <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error
Date: 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.

Robots.


cheers,
felix