[r6rs-discuss] fixnum->flonum but no flonum->fixnum?

[John Cowan]

Bradley Lucier scripsit:

> At any rate, it appears there's a fixnum->flonum, but no flonum- 
>  >fixnum; is this intentional?  Is there a rationale available?

I don't know for sure, but the rationale that comes to mind is that you
wouldn't know offhand how the conversion happens.  You can already use
FLOOR to round toward -inf.0, CEILING to round toward +inf.0, TRUNCATE
to round toward 0, or ROUND to round off.  Those should be sufficient.

(Fortran and C round toward 0, Basic rounds toward -inf.0.)

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