Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] William D Clinger (20 Jan 2006 22:08 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Bradley Lucier (21 Jan 2006 18:42 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] bear (21 Jan 2006 18:50 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Paul Schlie (22 Jan 2006 03:34 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] bear (22 Jan 2006 16:22 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Paul Schlie (22 Jan 2006 18:45 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Alan Watson (23 Jan 2006 22:17 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Bradley Lucier (24 Jan 2006 21:09 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] bear (24 Jan 2006 22:27 UTC)
Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Alan Watson (24 Jan 2006 22:46 UTC)

Re: straw-man [was Re: arithmetic issues] Alan Watson 23 Jan 2006 22:16 UTC

bear wrote:
> So I think that what we have here is motivated by one
> problem -- implementations that don't provide the full
> numeric tower -- proposes a minimum ground on which to
> solve it, and provides the solution given that minimum
> ground.  There is no reason once the solution is in
> place to leave that ground exposed.

I agree.

I applaud the authors of SRFI-77 for providing the tools to solve an
important problem (implementing the full tower). However, once they've
solved the problem, I'd like them to put their tools away tidily.

Regards,

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