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Re: [Chicken-users] ISO C89 <math.h> routines
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] ISO C89 <math.h> routines |
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Tue, 23 May 2006 17:50:12 +0200 |
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:48:39AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > Suggest prefixing exported identifiers w/ 'fp'. There is an
> > unreleased egg, fpfz, with related contents I could add.
>
> Since these names are very commonplace, being used in C and other
> Schemes as well as other languages, I think this is unnecessary.
> Why have sin but fpsinh, log but fplog10? Sinh and log10 do the job.
Hopefully the R6 module system will make discussions like this superfluous.
A prefix should be determined by the user, not the author.
Regards,
Peter
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