bug#14871: flonum procedures returning non-flonum objects

bug#14871: flonum procedures returning non-flonum objects

[Göran Weinholt]

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Hello schemers,

one property of the flonum procedures in r6rs is that they return
flonums. This should not happen:

scheme@(guile-user)> (import (rnrs))
scheme@(guile-user)> (fllog -1.0)
$1 = 0.0+3.141592653589793i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flsqrt -1.0)
$2 = 0.0+1.0i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flasin 3.0)
$3 = 1.5707963267948966-1.762747174039086i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flacos 3.0)
$4 = 0.0+1.762747174039086i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flexpt -1.0 0.5)
$5 = 6.123031769111886e-17+1.0i

These results are not flonums. In r6rs-lib it says "the result may be a
NaN or some unspecified flonum." So returning +nan.0 would be better.
Tested with Guile 2.0.9.22-7e816-dirty.

Regards,

-- 
Göran Weinholt <goran@weinholt.se>
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander
off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has
no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla

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bug#14871: flonum procedures returning non-flonum objects

[Mark H Weaver]

Göran Weinholt <goran@weinholt.se> writes:

> one property of the flonum procedures in r6rs is that they return
> flonums. This should not happen:
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (import (rnrs))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (fllog -1.0)
> $1 = 0.0+3.141592653589793i
> scheme@(guile-user)> (flsqrt -1.0)
> $2 = 0.0+1.0i
> scheme@(guile-user)> (flasin 3.0)
> $3 = 1.5707963267948966-1.762747174039086i
> scheme@(guile-user)> (flacos 3.0)
> $4 = 0.0+1.762747174039086i
> scheme@(guile-user)> (flexpt -1.0 0.5)
> $5 = 6.123031769111886e-17+1.0i
>
> These results are not flonums. In r6rs-lib it says "the result may be a
> NaN or some unspecified flonum." So returning +nan.0 would be better.

Fixed in ad922d065c5f8b01c4ace3ee34d26300409e44fa.

    Thanks!
      Mark