On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:20:57 EDT John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> 1) Should R7RS-large require arbitrarily large (up to implementation
> restrictions like memory) exact integers?

Yes.

> 2) Should R7RS-large require support for exact rational numbers?
> (This is independent of #1: Wraith Scheme provides ratios of fixnums
> but not bignums).

Yes.

> 3) Should R7RS-large require support for exact complex numbers?

No.

But I would change this to yes if support for big floats (&
big complex nums), with settable precision was added. [Macsyma
has had big floats since 1975 I think. A few Commmon Lisp
implementations also support them]

> 4) Should R7RS-large require inexact complex numbers, to consist of
> pairs of 64-bit IEEE binary floats?

Yes.

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