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

[Michael Sperber]

Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> writes:

> I tried to search the archives using google, but it isn't so easy  
> when searching for non-letter characters.
>
> At any rate, it appears there's a fixnum->flonum, but no flonum- 
>  >fixnum; is this intentional?  Is there a rationale available?

This was present in the original draft of SRFI 77, but removed during
the discussion period.  You'll find a statement to that effect in the
"Revision History" section on

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-77/srfi-77.html

Will Clinger made the actual change, but I assume it was made in
response to the general call to pare down the set of operations on
flonums, many of which had only marginal value.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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