On 5/5/26 17:48, Peter McGoron wrote:
>  > To avoid any confusion, all the values on the rhs should have a
> decimal point, so nobody accidentally interprets the lack of one as an
> exact value.
>
> The RHS is meant to be the mathematical numbers that the numbers on the
> left read as, because the approximation comes later.

I think there are (or at least should be) two separate considerations:

1.  When you convert between these character strings and Scheme objects,
which objects do you get?

2.  How does one interpret these Scheme objects as numbers?

I think this SRFI should restrict itself to issue 1: when reading
certain character strings, which Scheme objects are returned?  when
writing certain Scheme objects as character strings in the format
specified by this SRFI, which character strings are returned?

How one interprets these Scheme objects as numbers is a separate thing.

So I agree with Jim Rees.

Brad