Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with rationals

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:00:10PM +0100, Mark Carter wrote:
> Is this a bug in chicken?
>       (rational? 6/10) => #f

Chicken by itself doesn't support ratnums.  You'll need the
"numbers" egg to get the full numeric tower (including arbitrarily
large numbers and complex numbers).

> Also
>       (* 1.0 5/2)
> produces
> Error: (*) bad argument type: 5/2

If I want to reproduce this, do I need to type in anything else?
It doesn't happen here.

Cheers,
Peter
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