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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander? |
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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:53:55 -0500 |
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Alex Shinn scripsit:
> > no read/write invariance for numbers,
>
> For inexact numbers, which are inexact, and R5RS
> makes no claims about how inexact , and they needn't
> be supported at all.
>
> > no bignum literals in the compiler even with the numeric egg.
>
> A fully conformant implementation doesn't need to support
> bignums at all.
That's true, but if it does support them, it has to support them *this* way.
In particular, a given number might be unrepresentable in a Scheme, but
if representable at all, it must be representable as a source code literal.
> > There is also the limit on passed arguments, but I don't know if
> > that still applies in the new apply-hack world.
>
> Where does R5RS say proceures must support an unlimited
> number of arguments? That's just a standard compiler limitation -
> if nothing else you're always limited by available memory. It
> doesn't have anything to do with standards conformance.
This problem mostly bites when you use APPLY.
--
John Cowan <address@hidden> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
--Albert Einstein
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Ivan Raikov, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, John Cowan, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Ivan Raikov, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, John Cowan, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Peter Busser, 2007/12/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Alex Shinn, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, John Cowan, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Ivan Raikov, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, John Cowan, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Alex Shinn, 2007/12/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?,
John Cowan <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Debian slander?, Alex Shinn, 2007/12/26