Re: Real numbers

[Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 Tony> I still don't know DSSSL's (or Scheme's) definition of a real
 Tony> number

For Scheme, see <URL:http://ftp-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r4rs_8.html#SEC50>.

 Tony> I can't think of an argument that would return different values
 Tony> for real? and number?

Right.  The only thing between `number' and `real' in the Scheme
numerical tower is `complex', so `number?' and `real?' should be
equivalent in a system which doesn't support complex numbers.

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