Re: ratio implementation

[Marius Vollmer]

Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:

> When introducing exact rationals, which are represented internally
> as a pair of two exact integer values, we should not name them
> rationals, but, for example, fractions.
>
> The reason I mention this is that I want to avoid a macro
> SCM_RATIONAL_P to be introduced: The meaning of such a macro would not
> be clear, since it might either be expected to return the equivalent
> of rational? or just return true if an object was detected with an
> internal representation of a fraction.

Yes, very good point.  Bill, please name your data type "fraction".

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