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bug#13905: (max inexact exact) => always inexact?
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
bug#13905: (max inexact exact) => always inexact? |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:59:29 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Daniel Llorens <address@hidden> writes:
> My interest in this is that I don't want
>
> (fold max -inf.0 exact-number-list)
>
> to return an inexact number.
By the way, there's an easy way to accomplish what you want. Simply use
'reduce' (from SRFI-1) instead of 'fold':
(reduce max -inf.0 exact-number-list)
Regards,
Mark