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Re: arithmetic issues Per Bothner 25 Oct 2005 18:08 UTC

Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> 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.

Wrong.  Closures can be modified.
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