From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
To: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>,
"Bengt Richter" <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: 40744@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40744: guile-2.2.4 (integer-length 0) erroneously returns 0, not 1
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:01:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmvjarn7.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428204110.50e47ad0@alma-ubu>
Hmm, the zero result appears to be intentional, i.e. it's mentioned in
the examples here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#Arithmetic
and is also specified by Chez Scheme and SRFI-60:
https://www.scheme.com/csug8/numeric.html
https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-60/srfi-60.html
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Rob Browning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-16 3:01 UTC|newest]
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2020-04-28 18:08 ` bug#40744: guile-2.2.4 (integer-length 0) erroneously returns 0, not 1 Björn Höfling
2020-04-28 18:41 ` Björn Höfling
2021-07-16 3:01 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2021-07-24 17:12 ` Bengt Richter
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