Re: Nitpick with FLOOR etc. Michael Sperber 11 Jul 2005 06:55 UTC

Aubrey Jaffer <xxxxxx@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>  | From: Michael Sperber <xxxxxx@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
>  | Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:44:08 +0200
>  |
>  | The definition of FLOOR, like R5RS, starts out with:
>  |
>  | "These procedures return integers."
>  |
>  | Then it goes on to say:
>  |
>  | (floor 1/0) => 1/0
>  |
>  | which is not an integer by the current draft.
>
> Good catch!  I have removed those two examples.

Huh.  I was kind of expecting you to remove the "integers" sentence. :-)

What are the return values for infinities supposed to be?  Are these
procedures allowed to signal an error in those cases?

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