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| Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:39:59 -0700 | From: Alef Null Petrofsky <al@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | | > From: Aubrey Jaffer <agj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> | | > How about "1/0." and "-1/0."? | | Something I'd just like to throw out there is that one can represent | the inexact floating-point entities "NaN" and positive and negative | "infinity" without extending the r5rs BNF at all, by using #i0/0, | #i1/0, and #i-1/0. Those would work. The #e and #i prefixes are not one of the better Scheme inventions: #e-5 puns 1#e-5; #i-1/0 suggests an imaginary infinity to non-schemers. | (I implemented this for kawa back in 1998, but I don't know whether | kawa still uses that notation.) Kawa 1.7.90 accepts #i1/0, #i-1/0, and #i0/0; also #e1/0 and #e-1/0. [but chokes on 1#.e-5]