Alan Watson <xxxxxx@astrosmo.unam.mx> writes:

> NaNs are atoms -- they have no context or stucture, just a single value.
> With the understandable exception of the eof object (and as has been
> noted, this is exception is not universal), Lisps and Schemes
> tranditionally provide read syntax for atoms. So, tradition suggests
> that we should have a read syntax for NaNs.

Hogwash.  Procedures are atoms.