SRFI 270: Hexadecimal Floating-Point Constants

by Peter McGoron

status: draft (2026-05-01)

keywords: Reader Syntax

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Abstract

Floating-point numbers are generally in radix 2, but are written by users in radix 10. This SRFI introduces Scheme syntax for hexadecimal floating point constants based on C99's syntax.