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[Chicken-users] R7RS: (current-jiffy) and (jiffies-per-second)


From: Daniel Carrera
Subject: [Chicken-users] R7RS: (current-jiffy) and (jiffies-per-second)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:51:45 +0100

Hello,

I hope nobody minds an R7RS question. This list seems to have people knowledgeable of R7RS. It seems weird that R7RS would specify the functions:

(current-jiffy)  -->  An exact integer representing the number of jiffies (arbitrary unit of time) since some arbitrary epoch.

(jiffies-per-second) --> Integer representing the number of jiffies in one second.


What could possibly be the value of these functions, given that R7RS already specifies (current-second) as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch? This seems like an oddly useless concept for a language that tries to be minimalist.


Cheers,
Daniel.
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