Arithmetic issues Michael Sperber (18 Oct 2005 06:03 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues felix winkelmann (18 Oct 2005 07:00 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues John.Cowan (18 Oct 2005 17:36 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (19 Oct 2005 18:13 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues John.Cowan (19 Oct 2005 18:21 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues bear (18 Oct 2005 19:52 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues John.Cowan (18 Oct 2005 21:12 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues bear (19 Oct 2005 02:13 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues John.Cowan (19 Oct 2005 02:19 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues bear (19 Oct 2005 03:23 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues Andre van Tonder (19 Oct 2005 11:47 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (19 Oct 2005 14:14 UTC)
Re: Arithmetic issues Andre van Tonder (19 Oct 2005 16:00 UTC)

Re: Arithmetic issues felix winkelmann 18 Oct 2005 07:00 UTC

On 10/18/05, Michael Sperber <xxxxxx@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
> Now, the Issues section in the SRFI is pretty long.  We were hoping to
> get some feedback on where people stand on these issues, so it'd be
> great if you could see it as some kind of questionnaire and just fire
> off your position on the issues where you have one.  You don't have to
> bother with a rationale.  (But of course rationales are always
> appreciated.)
>

I think the full numeric tower should be optional, since there are many
Scheme implementations for tiny environments (PICBIT), highly
specialized environments (Schemix) or are used for embedding.
Making the full numeric tower mandatory would preclude these specialized
environments - an area where Scheme used to thrive, due to its small
size.

cheers,
felix