Comments Bradley Lucier (20 Jul 2026 21:14 UTC)
Re: Comments John Cowan (20 Jul 2026 22:40 UTC)
Re: Comments Bradley Lucier (21 Jul 2026 00:43 UTC)
Re: Comments Peter McGoron (21 Jul 2026 02:58 UTC)
Re: Comments Bradley Lucier (21 Jul 2026 20:11 UTC)
Re: Comments Peter McGoron (21 Jul 2026 14:53 UTC)
Re: Comments Bradley Lucier (21 Jul 2026 20:09 UTC)
Re: Comments Marc Feeley (21 Jul 2026 21:43 UTC)
Re: Comments Peter McGoron (22 Jul 2026 02:43 UTC)
Re: Comments Bradley J Lucier (22 Jul 2026 02:59 UTC)

Re: Comments Bradley Lucier 21 Jul 2026 20:11 UTC

On 7/20/26 18:40, John Cowan wrote:
> This is another silent breaking change to historic (sin 0) => 0.0 etc.,
> but hopefully less problematic, since user-level tests for exactness are
> rare.

"Historic"?  I can imagine that some Schemes do/have done this, because
it's what C and other languages do automatically, but I don't see that
this gives it any intrinsic superiority to (sin 0) => 0.