Subject: Re: my notes from the Scheme workshop at ICFP98
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1998/11/20
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <733efa$bq6sf@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Marc Feeley  <feeley@raptor.IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
+---------------
| > Of course, in all of these:
| >   > (eqv? (- 3.0 3.0) (+ 3.0 -3.0))
| >   #t
| 
| On the other hand, Gambit-C treats 0.0 and -0.0 differently (as per
| the IEEE FP standard) and eqv? distinquishes 0.0 and -0.0:
| 
| > (* 3.0 0.0)
| 0.
| > (* -3.0 0.0)
| -0.
| > (eqv? (* 3.0 0.0) (* -3.0 0.0))
| #f
+---------------

Hmmm... I must have a really old version or something:

	% gsi
	Gambit (v2.3.1)

	: (* 3.0 0.0)
	0.

	: (* -3.0 0.0)
	0.

	: (eqv? (* 3.0 0.0) (* -3.0 0.0))
	#t

	: 


-Rob

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