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Ticket 81: What numeric tower variants should be supported?

2011-01-24 07:02:58
WG1 - Numerics
alexshinn
major
cowan
wontfix
source
closed
2010-09-07 20:10:25
defect

NumericTower lists a plausible set of ten from fixnums only to the full monty. Which ones should we allow an implementation to provide? R5RS requires only fixnums large enough to handle string and vector indexes.

alexshinn
2010-11-15 10:23:31
descriptionNumericTower lists a plausible set of ten from fixnums only to the full monty. Which ones should we allow an implementation to provide?NumericTower lists a plausible set of ten from fixnums only to the full monty. Which ones should we allow an implementation to provide? R5RS requires only fixnums large enough to handle string and vector indexes.
cowan
2011-01-24 07:02:58
resolution␣wontfix
statusnewclosed

WG1 chose to accept the R5RS status quo.