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Re: Nitpick with FLOOR etc.

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Aubrey Jaffer <agj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>  | From: Michael Sperber <sperber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  | Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:44:08 +0200
>  | 
>  | The definition of FLOOR, like R5RS, starts out with:
>  | 
>  | "These procedures return integers."
>  | 
>  | Then it goes on to say:
>  | 
>  | (floor 1/0) => 1/0
>  | 
>  | which is not an integer by the current draft.
>
> Good catch!  I have removed those two examples.

Huh.  I was kind of expecting you to remove the "integers" sentence. :-)

What are the return values for infinities supposed to be?  Are these
procedures allowed to signal an error in those cases?

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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