[plt-dev] Inexact integers

I'm totally ignorant of the history of this proposal, but I find it
very compelling. Was there any valid flak? Any improvements, etc?

Jay

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Michael Sperber
<sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>
> --
> Cheers =8-} Mike
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