<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Faré <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahree@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Robert Goldman <<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.net">rpgoldman@sift.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Zach Beane wrote:<br>
>> Faré <<a href="mailto:fahree@gmail.com">fahree@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
>><br>
>>> femlisp raises an interesting issue: it has (setq<br>
>>> *READ-DEFAULT-FLOAT-FORMAT* 'double-float) in setup.lisp</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Gendl also sets *read-default-float-format* to 'double-float, and expects it to be set that way for compiling any Gendl/GDL application code (all the internal operations for points, vectors, transforms, etc are expected to deal in double-floats). </div>
<div><br></div><div>That is the only non-ANSI-compliant thing in Gendl, as far as I know. </div><div><br></div><div>If there is a reasonable way to back out of this to make Gendl 100% ANSI compliant, I'd be interested to look into it. But the current situation is that users expect double-float to be the default when working with Gendl. </div>
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