Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <xxxxxx@knm.org.pl> writes:

> I already listed them among the 10 properties.

Most of what you gave weren't requirements you think we should have,
but questions you were asking about implementation.

> Of course most numeric
> programs don't need all of them, but I don't want to care about each
> aspect separately each time.

Of course, this kind of tedium is what computers are for.  Care about
it once, and then make one declaration around your whole programe
(with-my-numeric-conventions ....)

> I trust IEEE designers, I know that
> common pitfalls are taught, that methods for estimating errors are
> known, that the knowledge about which algorithms are numerically
> stable exists independently of the language, and that people who
> implement numeric algorithms know how to apply floating point to them.
> I don't want each language to introduce a distinct set of pitfalls.
> It's a too delicate territory to be creative without a good reason.

Great!  So trust IEEE, and wrap your program with

(with-ieee-numeric-conventions ...)

You haven't said what *wrong* with that?