tags 16464 notabug
thanks
Zefram writes:
> The + procedure left-folds its arguments in interpreted code and
> right-folds its arguments in compiled code. This may or may not be a
> bug.
[...]
> R5RS and the Guile documentation are both silent about the order of
> operations in cases like this
The + procedure left-folds its arguments in interpreted code and
right-folds its arguments in compiled code. This may or may not be a bug.
Obviously, with exact numbers the direction of folding makes no
difference. But the difference is easily seen with flonums, as flonum
addition is necessarily
