[r6rs-discuss] The definition of flonum is in the wrong place

Peter Gavin pgavin at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 20:02:59 EDT 2006


On 10/8/06, Aubrey Jaffer <agj at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>  | It is a very useful clarification, especially given that there will
>  | probably be many systems in which the flonums will not be a proper
>  | subset of the inexact reals.
>
> Then the sentence should read:
>
>   The flonums are a subset of the inexact reals, but may include all
>   of the inexact reals.
>

+1.

I think this is clearer.  However, something along the lines of:

   Some inexact reals may not be flonums.

is even better.

Pete



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