On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > My point was that inexactness leads to a lot of nasty incoherence. > > But in the spirit of asking naive questions... > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: >> No, it's not a bug. Since 1e100 is an inexact number, there's >> uncertainty about the minimum of those two numbers, > > So could a conforming implementation return 1e100 as the answer? > (min 0 1e100) => 1e100
Conforming to what? Racket conforms to the Racket docs, which requires 0.0 as the answer. The R6RS spec is not totally clear on this point, but I don't think it allows that. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
