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Re: [ANN]: slimmed down boot-9, revision 1


Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Greg Harvey wrote:
> > 
> >         * transcend.scm: new module, containing the transcendental
> >         functions
> > 
> 
> A slimmed down boot-9 is a good thing, but removing these functions is a
> bad
> idea, as I believe they are needed to be RnRS compliant (otherwise, only
> versions whose name is prefixed with a dollar sign are defined).
> 

Oops, wasn't keeping a close eye on the standard.  I don't see why
these couldn't be moved to numbers.c, though (couldn't we just lose
the $blah functions, and do the entire thing in c?).

-- 
Greg