[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Formal Comment: NaN should be considered a number, not a real

[Thomas Lord]

Alan Watson wrote:
> SCM is not a fast implementation of Scheme. Therefore, that something 
> provokes a 2% change in the run-time of a program in SCM does not imply 
> that it will provoke similarly small changes in other implementations.
>   



You are applying a good rule of thumb but, in this case:
it's a lot more complicated than that.    Jaffer has a good
point (which is *almost* an invariant) but.... I'm not sure
it's all that important or on topic to say, here, more than:
"you ought to look into that."


This margin is too small,
-t