[Scheme-reports] Orthogonality in the numeric tower Biep (26 May 2014 17:14 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Orthogonality in the numeric tower John Cowan (26 May 2014 18:03 UTC)

[Scheme-reports] Orthogonality in the numeric tower Biep 26 May 2014 17:09 UTC

Around Sun, 25 May 2014 17:38:01 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

 > Writing a SRFI for Gaussian integers would be a Good Thing.

I haven't voted because I don't grasp the implementation issues involved, but wouldn't it in principle be a Good Thing if in the Scheme numeric tower the various aspects were orthogonal?
- Granularity (Integer/Rational/Real/..)
- Extent in its various forms (negatives, bignums, infinities, NaN, ..)
- Dimensionality (Simple/Complex/Quaternionic/..)
- Exactness

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