Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 02:47:01AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Felix scripsit:
> 
> > * Those who want IEEE behaviour can have it using "fpexpt".
> 
> True.  However, I tend to expect that the fp* functions will provide
> efficient versions of the regular procedures (because they know their
> arguments are flonums) rather than returning different results.

+1 on that.  Having the fp (or fx, for that matter) procedures behave
differently from the "generic" ones on flonums is unintuitive and seems
to me like trouble in the making.

Cheers,
Peter
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