From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch>
Cc: 13905@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13905: (max inexact exact) => always inexact?
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:59:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738w567la.fsf@tines.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75E5F130-E4B6-49CF-9937-CF2D153B494C@bluewin.ch> (Daniel Llorens's message of "Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:43:15 +0100")
Daniel Llorens <daniel.llorens@bluewin.ch> writes:
> My interest in this is that I don't want
>
> (fold max -inf.0 exact-number-list)
>
> to return an inexact number.
By the way, there's an easy way to accomplish what you want. Simply use
'reduce' (from SRFI-1) instead of 'fold':
(reduce max -inf.0 exact-number-list)
Regards,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-08 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-08 12:43 bug#13905: (max inexact exact) => always inexact? Daniel Llorens
2013-03-08 18:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-08 18:59 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2013-03-08 19:19 ` Daniel Llorens
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