On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Carl Eastlund wrote: > On 6/14/07, AndrevanTonder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By the way, why not have versions be exact decimals >> instead of lists, so one could write things like >> >> (and (>= 5.45) (< 6)) >> >> more concisely. > > Because 5.45 is ambiguous between (5 45) and (5 4 5). Digits impose > an artificial restriction to the range 0-9.
Ah, I forgot that subversions could be larger than 9 (please also ignore an additional post I just sent based on this misconception). But I wonder if this is not a misfeature, given its dissonance with longstanding industry practice (as far as I am aware). Andre _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
