Arthur -- Thanks for the quick response. From your description of the patch, it sounds like you addressed the error that occurs using Gambit. But did you also have a look at the odd rounding behavior I reported in my first message? /Don On 11 October 2017 at 17:32, Arthur A. Gleckler <xxxxxx@speechcode.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Donald Allen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Maybe this will help: > > > Thanks. I tried your examples in both Gambit and Guile. They worked fine > in Guile, but in Gambit, I got the same results you did. It turns out that > this is because number->string in Gambit doesn't prefix numbers whose > absolute value is less than one with a zero, i.e. it produces ".997" instead > of "0.997". However, compose-with-digits assumes the latter. > > I've attached a fix for this bug. Note that I have not checked for this > problem on all code paths. > > I've included Ken Dickey, the author of SRFI 48, among the recipients in > case he would like to comment — or approve of my applying the patch to the > public implementation as an erratum. > > For reference, here's the archive of the discussion so far: > > https://srfi-email.schemers.org/srfi-48/dates/2017/10 > > Thanks.
