Re: [Chicken-users] Exact flownums not properly displayed in mingw

[John Cowan]

Michele La Monaca scripsit:

> > Chicken uses the local C's idea of number-to-string conversion.
> 
> Not the best approach I think. I would rather prefer a consistent behavior.

If you want a specific output format, use the fmt egg.

> Being a valid Scheme number it's not a valid reason to dislay it as
> it is, IMHO.

R5RS/R7RS merely require that "the result contains a decimal point
and is expressed using the minimum number of digits (exclusive of
exponent and trailing zeroes) needed to make the above expression true"
(s.v. `number->string`).  Both "1." and "1.0" satisfy that rule.

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