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Alan Watson scripsit: > I think that the flonum-specific parts of SRFI-77 has some issues when > there is more than one flonum representation[*]. For example, consider > an implementation with IEEE 754 single-precision and double-precision > flonums. I read SRFI 77 as saying that a conforming Scheme system can have more than one representation of inexact reals, but that one of these must be labeled "flonums" for the purposes of the standard, and the others are something else. The procedure "real->flonum" coerces an arbitrary real to the chosen case so that the flonum-specific procedures can be invoked. -- John Cowan cowan@xxxxxxxx http://ccil.org/~cowan Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians. - Russ Rymer