Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Alan Watson <a.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:By "library", I do *not* mean "a body of code implemented in Scheme". I mean "a set of procedures that can be exposed or not".Various kinds of numbers typically don't correspond to a separate set of procedures, but to augmenting the behavior of existing procedures and understanding some kinds of literals, both of which are hard to do from a library.
Yes, and when you import a library that defines a certain set of numbers you must modify read and write appropriately. This is not a big deal, especially when the library is supplied by the implementation and can use "magic" not available to programmers.
Regards, Alan -- Dr Alan Watson Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica Universidad Astronómico Nacional de México