From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Project: a good floating point printer/reader. Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:01:59 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87g00vvk1k.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87vg9xjcty.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021357041 4961 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2002 06:17:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 06:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 177Vce-0001Hu-00 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 08:17:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177UmU-00014l-00; Tue, 14 May 2002 01:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177MxJ-0001BH-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 17:02:06 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1B74066; Mon, 13 May 2002 16:01:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8ED822921; Mon, 13 May 2002 16:01:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87vg9xjcty.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "09 May 2002 22:17:13 +0200") Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:600 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:600 Marius Vollmer writes: > I think we need a better floating point printer and or reader. The > current ones can not print denormal numbers, and the string printed > will not always read back as the exact same number (as required by > R5RS). [...] > If anyone wants to work on this, that would be great. I haven't checked yet, but can we use GMP's IO routines? I'll go see what's there. Guess I'll also have to see how they relate to r5rs... -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel