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bug#14871: flonum procedures returning non-flonum objects


From: Göran Weinholt
Subject: bug#14871: flonum procedures returning non-flonum objects
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:38:56 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux)

Hello schemers,

one property of the flonum procedures in r6rs is that they return
flonums. This should not happen:

scheme@(guile-user)> (import (rnrs))
scheme@(guile-user)> (fllog -1.0)
$1 = 0.0+3.141592653589793i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flsqrt -1.0)
$2 = 0.0+1.0i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flasin 3.0)
$3 = 1.5707963267948966-1.762747174039086i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flacos 3.0)
$4 = 0.0+1.762747174039086i
scheme@(guile-user)> (flexpt -1.0 0.5)
$5 = 6.123031769111886e-17+1.0i

These results are not flonums. In r6rs-lib it says "the result may be a
NaN or some unspecified flonum." So returning +nan.0 would be better.
Tested with Guile 2.0.9.22-7e816-dirty.

Regards,

-- 
Göran Weinholt <address@hidden>
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they 
wander
off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has
no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla

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