Agreed in general, but I think we want an exact positive and negative infinity, not more confusion to the coercion rules. Ironically R6RS includes max and min integers (at least I have a vague memory of such an addition) which will do the job.
N. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Doug Williams <m.douglas.willi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another such annoyance is than (min 1 +inf.0) => 1.0 - because if any > argument is inexact, the result is inexact. I don't think this makes sense > in the case of infinities. Infinities are very useful as initial values for > things that are being minimized or maximized, but there is always the need > for inexact->exact to protect against the (unexpected) coercion. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
