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: real numbers and integer-expt. Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:23:14 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1rkgo1p.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <876640j23t.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cz4nuer.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 1016054899 7309 127.0.0.1 (13 Mar 2002 21:28:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lGIE-0001tn-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:28:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lGEC-0000SU-00; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:24:08 -0500 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 16lGDh-0000RE-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:23:43 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBD21C24; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:23:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C456B54F; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:23:14 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <873cz4nuer.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "13 Mar 2002 20:23:56 +0100") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 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:24 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:24 Marius Vollmer writes: > Yes. Floats can be integers, too. However, there's a bug > nevertheless: floats can represent integers that don't fit into 32 > bit ints. Also, complex numbers can be ints as well. Also also, > the docstring talks about non-negative powers, but the code handles > negative ones as well. OK, so I'll fix that. What would be the right way (c-side) to handle a negative arg? i.e. what would be the right error func? (obviously not WTA). -- 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