Re: [Chicken-users] ISO C89 <math.h> routines

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:48:39AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > Suggest prefixing exported identifiers w/ 'fp'. There is an  
> > unreleased egg, fpfz, with related contents I could add.
> 
> Since these names are very commonplace, being used in C and other
> Schemes as well as other languages, I think this is unnecessary.
> Why have sin but fpsinh, log but fplog10?  Sinh and log10 do the job.

Hopefully the R6 module system will make discussions like this superfluous.
A prefix should be determined by the user, not the author.

Regards,
Peter
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