Re: [Scheme-reports] Strong win later reversed: Real numbers have imaginary part #e0
John Cowan 15 Dec 2012 23:15 UTC
Mark H Weaver scripsit:
> Several implementations that are not able to represent mixed exactness
> in the general case are able to do so in one special case: when the
> imaginary part is exact 0.
I don't think the behavior of `imag-part` is a reliable indication of this.
It may be simply that it returns 0 when the argument is a flonum.
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