Re: The new class fraction

[Matthias Koeppe]

Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:

> Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2003-11-18  Marius Vollmer  <address@hidden>
>>
>>      * objects.c (scm_class_fraction): New. 
>>
>> It is great to have rational numbers in Guile's number tower.
>>
>> However, why have you chosen the type name "fraction" rather than
>> "rational" as is the name used in for example Common Lisp?
>>
>> I suggest quickly changing the name to <rational> before <fraction>
>> sticks.
>
> Hmm... on second consideration.  Probably we should keep <fraction> as
> the concrete class representing fractions and introduce the abstract
> class <rational>, with subclasses <integer> and <fraction> so that
> membership of class <rational> is equivalent to the result of a call
> to the predicate rational?.

Actually, the name of the concrete class representing fractions is
called RATIO in Common Lisp.  It is a subclass of RATIONAL.

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Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe