Re: [AC21.5] Texinfo manual kilo-patch

Jeff Mincy <[email protected]> writes:

>> In other words, would anything break if (* 1.0 1/3) converted 1.0
>> to 1/1 and returned 1/3?
>
> Yes, this would break compatibility with common lisp.

I meant, anything other than compatibility with Common Lisp (which we
don't have anyway).  Things like existing code, common sense, widely
adopted usage, etc.

For example, one might argue that it's strange for (+ .1 1) to return
1 10000000000000001/100000000000000000 instead of 1.1.  (It can't
return 1 1/10 because 0.1 is not really 1/10.)