Re: PEG Parser

2011-02-06 Thread Noah Lavine
Hi, > However, I have a suspicion something odd is going on and this does > not contain all of the work it should from guile's repo. I ended up > having to use git cherry-pick instead of git rebase because I had made > a mistake when I first made my local peg branch. I checked out > origin/wip-mlu

Re: [PATCH] Handle products with exact 0 differently, etc

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Jerram
Noah Lavine writes: > Hello Mark, > > I haven't read through all of the discussion yet, but it's obvious > that you have good reasons for wanting (* 0 X) to be NaN when X is NB (and for the record), "NaN" here should be "inexact".

Re: [PATCH] Handle products with exact 0 differently, etc

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Jerram
Mark H Weaver writes: > Neil Jerram writes: >> >> In other words, the argument is that any inexact number might actually >> be infinite. (Right?) > > Yes. > >> That strikes me as stretching the idea of inexactness too far; and also >> as not useful, because I'm sure there are many practical way