bug#13905: (max inexact exact) => always inexact?

[Mark H Weaver]

Daniel Llorens <daniel.llor...@bluewin.ch> writes:
> My interest in this is that I don't want
>
> (fold max -inf.0 exact-number-list)
>
> to return an inexact number.

By the way, there's an easy way to accomplish what you want.  Simply use
'reduce' (from SRFI-1) instead of 'fold':

(reduce max -inf.0 exact-number-list)

   Regards,
     Mark