On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 11:40:47AM -0500, Sudarshan S Chawathe wrote: > > I seem to get incorrect output and errors in some cases when using the > > fmt and numbers eggs together. A brief transcript illustrating the > > problem is included below. In brief: > > > > * (fix 30 2/3) doesn't behave as indicated in the docs. > > > > * Some large numbers cause errors. > > > > When not using the numbers egg, fmt's behavior seems to be as expected > > (given Chicken's implementation of numbers without the 'numbers' egg). > > > > Is this a known limitation of fmt with 'numbers'? > > I'm afraid so. As far as I know the only way to fix this is to add a > hard dependency on numbers to fmt. This may not be desirable depending > on what you're using fmt for. > > This is a result of the second class treatment that extended numbers get, > and will be fixed in CHICKEN 5, due to integration of the full numeric > tower into core. > Note this is in contrast to how 'numbers' used to work, where loading it overloaded all numeric operations globally. The fmt documentation still reflects this previous behavior. -- Alex
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