Re: [r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

2008-10-22 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi Ken, Ken Dickey wrote: I think this is the crux of the matter. I was trained as and engineer -- a user of mathematics, rather than as a mathematician. Well, as an engineer, I would certainly expect you to recognize that when your intuitive understanding of a topic results in some variety

Re: [r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

2008-10-22 Thread Ken Dickey
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 06:08:02 Jon Wilson wrote: In this case, we clearly have a matter on which different people's intuition gives different results. I would say that in this case there are multiple formalisms to choose from. I don't believe the choice is obvious. I don't believe

Re: [r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

2008-10-22 Thread Elf
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Andre van Tonder wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, John Cowan wrote: The fact there's no dispute about the meaning of more than one argument, whereas the interpretations of zero and one arguments are all over the lot, suggests that the restriction is anything but arbitrary.

Re: [r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

2008-10-22 Thread Thomas Lord
Elf wrote: meaning and have the same result. this is, of course, impossible. I do not think that word means what you think it means. (impossible). -t ___ r6rs-discuss mailing list r6rs-discuss@lists.r6rs.org