[plt-dev] Inexact integers

David Van Horn <dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> I talked with the PLTers who attended TFP and it was agreed that
> inexact integers, a holdover from Scheme standards, are counter
> intuitive.  I wonder if it is worth doing away with them in Racket?

It's not just inexact integers.  It's the entire idea of "inexactness"
attached to number objects rather than operations:

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.pdf

(No surprise we got huge amounts of flak from the old guard over this.)

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