On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Michael Sperber <sper...@deinprogramm.de> wrote: > > David Van Horn <dvanh...@ccs.neu.edu> writes: > >> I talked with the PLTers who attended TFP and it was agreed that >> inexact integers, a holdover from Scheme standards, are counter >> intuitive. I wonder if it is worth doing away with them in Racket? > > It's not just inexact integers. It's the entire idea of "inexactness" > attached to number objects rather than operations: > > http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.pdf > > (No surprise we got huge amounts of flak from the old guard over this.)
Personally, I'm not a big fan of this proposal, but it seems entirely orthogonal to the idea of getting rid of inexect integers. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
