Re: [Chicken-hackers] Patch for ticket #1587

[felix . winkelmann]

> I agree also given the existence of complex demotion in Chicken, whereby
> (make-rectangular 1.0 0.0) => (the flonum 1.0).  On the other hand, I think
> complex demotion is actually a Bad Thing because it means that inexactness
> in the computation of the imaginary part can make an inexact complex number
> into a real number, even though the imaginary part isn't truly zero.

I'm afraid I can't follow anymore, I'm not a math person. I just
want to avoid surprises when exactness of numbers may change
unexpectedly.


felix