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Re: rationals in guile?


Jay Glascoe <jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov> writes:

> What I mean is that the hard part would be to make the Guile interpreter
> correctly parse, read, and write "34/21" (or, God help us, "1+34/55i"). 

This is already done as nearly correctly as possible -- the rational expressions
are converted to floating point.