[r6rs-discuss] Complex <?

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Oct 24 15:34:21 EDT 2008


Ken Dickey scripsit:

> The naive reading (for a non-English speaker) would be that +2i is somehow 
> less real than +inf.0 .  8^)

That's just what it is: less real -- in fact, not real at all.  Non-real
numbers aren't magnitudes, and < does not and should not accept them
as arguments.

-- 
An observable characteristic is not necessarily         John Cowan
a functional requirement.  --John Hudson                cowan at ccil.org



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