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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Bradd W. Szonye wrote: >Just FYI, a little more background on Scheme's exponent markers: <clip> Okay, this does make sense; A 32bit float minus three bits for typetags though, is painfully coarse, but good enough for some types of applications. The more I think about it, the more I see these exponent markers as modifying the inexact prefix; In a perfect world, I'd prefer to banish them from the exponent marker alltogether and use #is, #if, #id, #il as inexactness prefixes for short, float, double, and long. We do not live in a perfect world. Such a change would cause a flag day for all existing code. Let's not do it. Bear