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Re: fixnumXXX and fxXXX names, and other things

To: William D Clinger <will@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: fixnumXXX and fxXXX names, and other things
From: John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:35:40 -0400
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William D Clinger scripsit:

> Do you like the fxringXXX convention Marc Feeley
> suggested, or would you prefer some other convention?

I can live with it, I suppose.

How about fxq (quiet) and fxs (signaling), by analogy with
the IEEE notion of quiet and signaling NaNs?

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