Re: A passing test case

[Gregory Marton <gremio@csail.mit.edu>]

> Gregory Marton <gremio@csail.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> The differences are not significant.  I guess I wanted to make clear
>> in the test case that this isn't something to do with literal
>> rationals, and I didn't want the test case to be printing things to
>> the console.
>
> OK, thanks for explaining that.  I assume that this test relates to
> the following NEWS item (for 1.8.2):
>
> ** Fractions were not `equal?' if stored in unreduced form.
> (A subtle problem, since printing a value reduced it, making it work.)

Yes.


> But doesn't that mean that your test needs to use an unreduced
> fraction, e.g. 2/4 instead of 1/2 ?

Now that I look more carefully at fractions.test, my assumption that a test 
case was already added for that case seems to be incorrect.  I'm happy to 
try to add these tests as well.


> (Or does Guile have a strange idea of reduction which means that 1/2
> is not already a reduced form?)

This appears to me to be the case for guile 1.8.1 at least.  I assume the 
two bugs, if they were separate, were fixed together.  I observed this 
behavior in guile 1.8.1, but not 1.8.3.

Best,
Grem

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