Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Alan Watson <xxxxxx@astrosmo.unam.mx> writes:
>
>
>>By "library", I do *not* mean "a body of code implemented in Scheme".
>>I mean "a set of procedures that can be exposed or not".
>
>
> Various kinds of numbers typically don't correspond to a separate set
> of procedures, but to augmenting the behavior of existing procedures
> and understanding some kinds of literals, both of which are hard to do
> from a library.
>

Yes, and when you import a library that defines a certain set of numbers
you must modify read and write appropriately. This is not a big deal,
especially when the library is supplied by the implementation and can
use "magic" not available to programmers.

Regards,

Alan
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Dr Alan Watson
Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica
Universidad Astronómico Nacional de México