[gambit-list] API to parse floats in Scheme

Lucier, Bradley J lucier at purdue.edu
Wed May 12 17:56:07 EDT 2021


I’m sorry, but I don’t know what the problem is that will be solved here.

The inherently difficult part of inputting or outputting floating-point numbers is converting between a human-readable base 10 representation and a machine-usable base two representation while maintaining maximal accuracy (with some side conditions for special values, overflow, underflow, etc.)

Are you proposing that this is what this pre-SRFI will do?

Brad


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