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] Miscellaneous for 2.0 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:38 -0500 Message-ID: <87wrl26zr5.fsf@netris.org> References: <941810.39891.qm@web114116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297720981 6519 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2011 22:03:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:03:01 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 23:02:56 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 1Pp6VT-0008AF-4t for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:02:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pp6VS-0001qH-Jz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41836 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pp6VK-0001q0-Uw for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pp6VJ-0003r4-Tt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:46 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([216.204.32.208]:42430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pp6VJ-0003qw-OF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:45 -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 1Pp6VE-0004R4-KN; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mhw by freedomincluded with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pp6VC-0006BC-LJ; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:02:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:39:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (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:11623 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > I saw your message and thought this should hit the list: > > On Sat 12 Feb 2011 20:45, Mark Weaver writes: > >> BTW, this is all based on my experience adding new number types to >> guile. I have a local branch in which both arbitrary precision floats >> and complex numbers with arbitrary component types are implemented >> entirely in scheme, and all the core numeric procedures are >> implemented to full precision, including transcendental operations, >> and all of it passes numbers.test. Even things like the numeric type >> predicates (number?, real? et al), and eqv? and equal? work as they >> should for these numbers. I was trying to get it ready for 2.0, but >> decided to wait. > > Very neat stuff! Thanks, Andy. I'll post patches and write more about this soon, but for now I don't want to distract from the 2.0 release. BTW, please don't expect me to see anything you send to that webmail account. I created it for emergency use only, and check it once per blue moon, probably less. Best, Mark