Re: ratio implementation

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

>> I wasn't even sure whether you wanted inexact->exact to
>> be changed -- I left the old code in place.
>
> Yes, it needs to be changed.  People who have assumed that
> inexact->exact always returns an integer need to think again (I'm
> afraid I'm one of them...).

Yep, I'm sure there are plenty of people in that situation.  I suspect
it's been used heavily in places where a (C) function require an
integer argument, i.e. (foo (inexact->exact (round x))).  Though as
long as (inexact->exact (round x)) is guaranteed to return an integer,
perhaps that's sufficient.

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Rob Browning
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