Re: [q-lang-users] Query about Type Tests (Complex and Rational).

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:
> John Cowan wrote:
> >>Like isintnum, iscomplexnum, etc. Maybe we should also add isexact?
> > 
> > Sounds good.  And isinexact (which would be true of floats and of
> > complex numbers with at least one float component).
> 
> Wouldn't 'isinexact' simply be the negation of 'isexact'?

I would assume these predicates return false on non-numbers.
(In fact, the Scheme equivalents throw errors on non-numbers, which
I consider a defect.)

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