On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:31:29 -0600, Neil Toronto wrote: >> Why do we have these things? > > I'm not sure this reason from 1996 is still relevant, but FWIW: > Originally, there were drawing-related `float' computations in C code > that I wanted to replicate exactly in Racket (ok, MzScheme). > Eventually, I solved my specific consistency problem by changing the C > code to use `double's; in other cases, someone might not be free to > change the calculation.
Would today's FFI make it easy (enough) to do those precise calculations? (Or maybe if we added a little library to help?) Robby _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
