Re: [issue] Representing nonterminating binary float results

Stephen> Hey, what a great idea! We should do this too. :-) Stephen> I believe that the Python license is sufficient flexible that we can Stephen> Steal This Code! if anybody wants to work on it. Stephen> P.S. If I set up the subject correctly, this should appear on the Stephen> tracker shortly. FWIW, Dybvig has a paper on printing floats. Dybvig includes a full scheme implementation in the paper and provides a C implementation as well. I think the C implementation is missing one of the algorithms in the paper, however. I think the implementation needs bignum arithmetic. Ray _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta