I intended to send this to the list, rather than just to John. -- vincent Begin forwarded message:
> From: Vincent Manis <[email protected]> > Date: 2011 May 1 16:16:36 PDT > To: John Cowan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Scheme-reports] Re: Fwd: Missing description of complex polar > form > > On 2011-05-01, at 14:35, John Cowan wrote: > >> None of Racket, Gauche, MIT, Gambit, Chicken with the numbers egg, >> Bigloo, Guile, Kawa, Scheme48, SISC, Chibi, Chez, SCM, Ikarus, >> Larceny, Ypsilon, Mosh, STklos, SSCM, and Scheme 9 distinguish between >> rectangular and polar complex numbers. > > I've never seen a Scheme system that did distinguish between these two > representations, but I'm grateful for the comprehensive list. Since these are > representational issues, there should be no such distinction internally; it > should be the job of NUMBER->STRING and STRING->NUMBER to handle them. > > I have an upcoming proposal about NUMBER->STRING that will, I think, address > this issue. > > -- v
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