[r6rs-discuss] Versions should have decimal point

AndrevanTonder andre at het.brown.edu
Thu Jun 14 10:59:52 EDT 2007


On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, AndrevanTonder wrote:

> I would like to point out that there is currently no
> good way of distinguishing
>
>   version 7.01    -> (7 0 1)
>   version 70.1    -> (7 0 1)  ?!
>
> This ambiguity would be avoided if versions were represented as
> exact decimals instead of lists.

Please ignore - I forgot that one could write (70 1).

Andre



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