Re: [Chicken-users] read / write floats

[Kon Lovett]

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On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Gábor Balázs wrote:

> Licence is not a problem for me yet, because this software
> is not for commercial use. I just do not like side effects when
> they should not happen, even if they are not crucial at the moment.
> The worst thing when they become crucial later.
>
> I don't see the benefit of this standard deviation of chicken scheme.
> If one says it is about performance, I can say scheme's text based
> read/write is far from the performance what binary I/O can provide.
> The real benefit of read/write is simplicity and portability.

I  agree. Up till now the lack of inexact read/write invariance was  
not a problem people hit. But, w/ the Chicken user community growing  
the standards issues we have been overlooking are becoming the  
elephant in the room.

I cannot promise anything, except to open an enhancement ticket.

> This latter is lost in our case now. I think read/write is so basic,
> the simplest code modules written first for chicken have side
> effects or (with using special eggs) become unportable to other
> scheme implementations.
>
> My opinion is that any reasonable scheme implementation
> should follow the standard first, and extend it second.

Well, maybe. But the author never claimed to support R5RS, only a  
subset.

Best Wishes,
Kon

> `bg`
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