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Re: Revised straw proposal for heuristic info

To: will@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Re: Revised straw proposal for heuristic info
From: Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 May 96 00:09 EDT
Cc: rrrs-authors@martigny.ai.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3197577A.45E0@ccs.neu.edu> (message from William D Clinger on Mon, 13 May 1996 15:38:34 +0000)
Reply-To: jaffer@ai.mit.edu

   Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:38:34 +0000
   From: William D Clinger <will@ccs.neu.edu>

   > Also, I think that using inexact
   > numbers for this purpose is misleading even if it is cute.

   I do not see why inexact numbers are any more misleading than
   encoding "2 or more" as -3.

I do.  R4RS compliant implementations are not required to support
inexact numbers, but they are required to support negative numbers.

Follow-Ups:
- R4RS compliance: negative numbers
  - From: William D Clinger <will@ccs.neu.edu>

References:
- Re: Revised straw proposal for heuristic info
  - From: William D Clinger <will@ccs.neu.edu>

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