[racket-dev] nan?, infinite? and regular-real? [Was: Latest Plot Package]

Mine are from the pre-r6rs days are exactly the same definitions as from
the GSL, which may differ slightly from those in r6rs. I would have to
check. They already exist in Racket in the r6rs stuff. I have no problem
with using those definitions instead of the ones from the GSL.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> On 11/18/2011 12:13 PM, Neil Toronto wrote:
>
>> I've moved this to dev from a private discussion with Doug, who has just
>> tried the nightly build.
>>
>> On 11/18/2011 11:43 AM, Williams, Doug wrote:
>>
>>> 2) The plot/utils has nan? and infinite?, which are also exported from
>>> the science collection and I had to explicitly exclude them in the
>>> require. Can we talk to the powers that be and see about getting them
>>> (and finite?) moved to racket/math? Then we can both remove them from
>>> our code. [I'm not sure about any interaction with the r6rs functions.]
>>>
>>
>> Powers That Be, Doug and I would like `nan?' and `infinite?' to be in
>> `racket/math'.
>>
>> I made an exact equivalent of Doug's `finite?', but called it
>> `regular-real?'. I use it in all kinds of function contracts (it returns
>> #f for non-reals). We would also like that one, with either name, in
>> `racket/math'.
>>
>
> How does 'finite?' differ from 'rational?'?
>
> If we're making a wishlist, I'd really like '{positive,nonnegative}-{real,
> **rational}?'.
>
> Ryan
>
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