Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:18:44PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> All other Schemes I tested with (Guile, Gauche, Scheme48, Racket and Gambit)
> return +inf.0 for (/ 1.0 0.0) and -inf.0 for (/ -1.0 0.0).
> They return +nan.0 for (/ 0.0 0.0).  Extra data points would be welcome.
> 
> I'd like to open a CR for doing the same in Chicken, to make it behave
> like a good little robot.  If it is accepted, a corresponding change will
> also be made to the "numbers" egg.  The CR has ticket number #672 in Trac.
> 

The voting process has now started.
https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/672

Cheers,
Peter
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