Re: arithmetic issues William D Clinger (18 Jan 2006 05:54 UTC)
Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (18 Jan 2006 17:08 UTC)
Re: arithmetic issues Michael Sperber (18 Jan 2006 20:43 UTC)
Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (18 Jan 2006 22:15 UTC)
Re: arithmetic issues bear (18 Jan 2006 18:21 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Aubrey Jaffer (20 Jan 2006 16:13 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Alan Watson (20 Jan 2006 17:43 UTC)
Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (20 Jan 2006 17:48 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson 20 Jan 2006 17:47 UTC

William D Clinger wrote:
> type declarations cannot address the
> portability and predictability issues unless implementations
> are required to interpret those declarations in a consistent
> way.

By "predictability", do the authors of the SRFI mean that inexact
arithmetic gives the same result everywhere, that (/ 1 2) gives the same
result everywhere, or something else?

Regards,

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