On Tue 15 Feb 2011 10:49, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > The first patch is trivial, but there for the sake of correctness.
Please apply, thanks. > The second patch adds round-ash, a rounding arithmetic shift operator. > > (round-ash n count) ==> (round (* n (expt 2 count))) > > but it's implemented much more efficiently than that, and requires that > both n and count are exact integers. It cannot be implemented very > efficiently in scheme, and I needed it to normalize floating-point > significands using the default IEEE rounding mode. I think it probably > has wider utility. It would be great to have it in 2.0. Any chance? I'm not sure I understand the name. There is no need to call "round" on the result of calling "ash". Can you think of another name? Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
