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: Creating a Lua roadmap Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:09:55 -0400 Message-ID: <87ei4v1i3w.fsf@netris.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303416630 8145 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2011 20:10:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Phil Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 22:10:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0Cn-0006SG-1G for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:10:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43495 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0Cm-0001wO-Gk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0Ch-0001w4-BL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0Cg-0003Yr-Fi for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:33245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0Cg-0003X1-B8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:10:18 -0400 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 1QD0CP-0001lo-PU; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:10:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mhw by freedomincluded with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0CK-00056I-31; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:09:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Phil's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:11:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12312 Archived-At: Phil writes: > - Missing standard library functions: math.modf math.modf(x) could be implemented as (truncate/ x 1) math.fmod(x,y) should be (truncate-remainder x y) math.frexp(x) needs an implementation that works well for all types of Scheme numbers. I already have this in my own tree, but have not yet submitted the patch. I was planning to do so after 2.0.1 is released, since it contains some non-trivial (but compatible) reworking to how fractions and divisions are handled in numbers.c. Best, Mark