From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] First batch of numerics changes Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:24:55 -0500 Message-ID: <8762t72vrc.fsf@yeeloong.netris.org> References: <87lj2762xc.fsf@yeeloong.netris.org> <87tygv4726.fsf@yeeloong.netris.org> <87wrlo2k9z.fsf@yeeloong.netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296339911 19664 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2011 22:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 29 23:25:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjJEB-0005yi-JF for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:25:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjJEA-0003AU-Vp for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40337 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjJE8-00038q-2B for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjJE6-0003dn-Vg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([216.204.32.208]:58519) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjJE6-0003dB-Se for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ip68-9-118-38.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.9.118.38] helo=freedomincluded) by world.peace.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjJE1-0000vv-8E; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mhw by freedomincluded with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjJDz-0008LS-6X; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:24:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:50:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 216.204.32.208 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11415 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > On Sat 29 Jan 2011 09:20, Mark H Weaver writes: > >> * libguile/numbers.c (scm_div, scm_mod, scm_div_and_mod, scm_div0, >> scm_mod0, scm_div0_and_mod0): New extensible procedures `div', `mod', >> `div-and-mod', `div0', `mod0', `div0-and-mod0'. > > I wonder; should we use Taylor Campbell's names? From > http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/DivisionRiastradh. I am inclined to > think so. It doesn't seem to me that there is any special reason to > take the R6RS names here. I forgot to ask before: what names do you think we should use for div0, mod0, and div0-and-mod0? Taylor Campbell didn't name those. Thanks, Mark