Re: [Chicken-users] <inexact> and <exact>

[Alex Shinn]

At Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:40:24 -0400 (EDT), Daniel B. Faken wrote:
> 
>   I am working with a C++ library which has methods that take a 'double'.
>   Using declare(full_specialization, yes) I can get TinyCLOS to recognize 
> method calls when the parameter is of the form 1.0001, but not if it is 
> just '1' - I get an error looking for an <exact> method.
>   This seems supported by R5RS saying that exactly one of exact? and
> inexact? is true, but how can I get my methods to recognized exact numbers 
> as well?  (I don't really want to define an <exact> case for each one..)
> 
>   I'm using today's CVS version (thanks for implementing ref's!), and the 
> docs say that <exact> and <inexact> are disjoint subclasses of <number>.

How about using <number>?

(define-method (add (x <number>) (y <number>))
  (+ x y))

-- 
Alex