[racket] Question about round

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 30 08:53:21 EDT 2011

exact-round is preferred. 



On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Yesterday, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
>> The pragmatic answer is you generally have to write
>> 
>>   (inexact->exact (round x))
>> 
>> which is annoying, but no one has yet bothered to add a standard
>> library function for this, as far as I know.
> 
> [From the annoyed side, especially since that thing tends to come in
> bunches which can make some quick code look much heavier than it is:]
> 
> Maybe it's time to add something for that?  `eround'?  (But even
> `exact-round' would be better than the above.)
> 
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