From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Miscellaneous for 2.0 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:39:59 +0100 Message-ID: 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 1297715704 8910 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2011 20:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: "Mark H. Weaver" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 21:34:59 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 1Pp58N-0001k3-DQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:34:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pp58M-0005Nr-SC for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52599 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pp58G-0005Nm-O2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pp58F-0004ut-DG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:51979 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pp58F-0004un-9T for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:34:51 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0EE4A3A; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:35:55 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=f7HcC6bmzncQlWMh+x/EPlU5cdA=; b=KE9lxX nD070NPUeaeNMSVcsYH6WrjDuqaHYwhoWHMNJLmXfz9PnufkBCMJnz9d8zSUbvlT XhyMJtgDbgpey2zZdkT6+YDkleCSoJokw6nb6FlDmY6HJBpHoEnZQm9J++YHCVSm zQP47+rNlV29m4ttaVkdNYOoB5K7jZJM4iX0A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=QIcmRKaokV2wRpl9Gol2cf0bzKqnnVBl UoHIvlKOGAs2tq2bbMFFsLdCeIcdli2jDpr8drov6q7Xe1UOiZedpN2CyMW7VYcK X97kqGej1QFvVJ/I2TeG9dF4OvMJkVV30MTtSF1pCZJ+0pLaCdbntMJYjbOb7/9H z3RIyoHPOLc= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01744A39; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:35:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5CDD64A35; Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:35:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <941810.39891.qm@web114116.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (Mark Weaver's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:45:06 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 04D68D62-387A-11E0-AD39-AF401E47CF6F-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 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:11622 Archived-At: Hi Mark, 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! Andy -- http://wingolog.org/