[plt-dev] bug in plot?

Yes, I can tell that the drawing is not using mred's library (it looks
much worse that mred's library). I had guessed it might be an FFI
issue with numbers.

Robby

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Dec  4, Robby Findler wrote:
>> I think that this is a bug in plot. The plot that shows up seems to
>> have negative numbers, but this function is positive everywhere. Is it
>> possible this is an ffi bug?
>>
>> (plot (line (λ (x) (expt (expt pi x) x)))
>>       #:x-min -10
>>       #:x-max 10
>>       #:y-min -100000
>>       #:y-max 100000)
>
> Looks like some kind of a problem in the way it draws really big
> numbers.  I don't remember the details, but I think that it calls out
> to Scheme to return the numbers, but the drawing etc is all in C.
> (For no good reason -- the whole thing can be done much better in
> Scheme....)
>
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