[racket-dev] [racket] Question about round

Here is what I meant: 

Integer in TR corresponds to exact-integer? (viewed as a predicate), 
and integer? in R may or may not map to Integer or Float in TR. 

There are more such anomalies. But let's rest the case here. 
Too much email for one day



On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Vincent St-Amour wrote:

> At Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:08:07 -0600,
> Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> Doesn't it already? The docs say
>> 
>>  `Integer' includes only integers that are exact numbers,
>>  corresponding to the predicate `exact-integer?'.
>> 
>> Even if the type were currently `Exact-Integer', it sounds like you
>> mean just renaming to `Integer'.
>> 
>> I think a change to the number hierarchy would mean changing functions
>> so that they produce different results on particular inputs than they
>> do now. That doesn't seem to be a part of Vincent's suggestion.
> 
> You are correct. My proposal only involves renaming functions, and
> introducing a couple of new ones.
> 
> The goal of that proposal is not so much to change the Racket numeric
> tower, but rather to clear up the confusion regarding what's an
> integer and what's not, to align it better with what (I believe) users
> expect.
> 
> Vincent