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Re: [Chicken-users] Exact flownums not properly displayed in mingw


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Exact flownums not properly displayed in mingw
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:44:43 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Michele La Monaca scripsit:

> Mingw
> #;1> (print 1.0 "\n" 2.0 "\n" 3.10)
> 1.
> 2.
> 3.1

It's a deviation but not a bug.  Except for the four cases of
+inf.0, -inf.0, +nan.0, and -0.0, Chicken uses the local C's idea of
number-to-string conversion.  Since "1." is a valid Scheme inexact number,
that's perfectly fine.

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