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bear wrote: > You've promoted semantics which are mere accidents of hardware > implementation to the level of requirements. I firmly believe > that any scheme code which relies for its correctness on an > overflow or a roundoff is in error, so your "type specific > operations" are seen as implementing things which are not, in > fact, correct representations of the operations after which > they are named. You are wrong about that. The rest of your argument rests upon that incorrect belief, so I needn't respond to it. Will