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

[Alex Shinn]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Felix
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: expt should signal error on domain error
> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:21:44 +0200
>
>> 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.
>
> Is this intuition, or are you simply being used to it?

The only intuitive thing is the nipple.  After that,
everything is learned.

-- 
Alex