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Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit:
> I, for one, am not confident that IEEE arithmetic is perfect.
And I, for one, would welcome our new IEEE overlords. :-)
> I am very confident that the experts who designed that standard will
> someday need a new one.
The same applies to the Scheme standard.
> I would like to standardize Scheme's use in such a way that the
> language doesn't need to fundamentally change anytime such a change
> happens.
I think that's hopeless. If there is fundamental change, it will be in
fundamentally unforeseeable ways.
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