Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Omit warning about exact fractions when asked for an inexact value

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> And, after thinking about it some more, I'm convinced it's not even
> too bad to have the check in this place - if the user asked for an
> exact and whichever flavor of string->number we are using is unable to
> deliver, that's worth a warning.

The numbers egg should really use an entirely separate strategy for 
string to number conversion (including `read`).  I have filed ticket #804.

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