Re: [pure-lang-users] Yet another quirk with MinGW

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:38 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Eddie Rucker scripsit:
> 
> > You are right for 0.0. Yep, we have to use the |a-b| < epsilon
> > definition for equality. However, for the integer 0 and the rational 0%
> > 1, shouldn't log 0 be undefined?
> 
> Well, in general all the trig functions first cast their argument to a float;
> I think everyone expects that in whatever language, though some do provide
> integer square root functions, probably because they're easy to implement.
> 

Ok. I can live with that. 

I another note, mz-scheme says (log 0) is undefined and (log 0.0) is
-inf.0. IOW, It really does the right thing.

e.r.