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| Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:58:01 -0800 (PST) | From: bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx> | | 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. Of course, in a uniform array there is no need for type tag bits.