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2011-08-21 06:13:50
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WG1 - Numerics
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From Malcolm Tredinnick:
If you mean the grammar specification in the <complex> production on page 13 of the R6RS report, then that's the same as in R7RS draft 1 and is similar all the way back to at least R4RS. However, the problem is that it's only describing a bunch of symbols, not semantics. That's not enough information for an implementer or for somebody wanting to verify correct behaviour. Nowhere is it mentioned that this *is* the polar form, for example, let alone whether the number after the "@" is interpreted as radians or degrees or even possibly pineapples.
You cannot come to a recent Scheme report and get any understanding of what 1@2 actually means.
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168
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Second Public Draft
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alexshinn
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arcfide
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fixed
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Clarify behavior of polar and complex representations
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2011-05-02 22:06:44
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This is uncontroversial and has been updated in the draft.
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