Re: pi seems not to be a constant

[email protected] (Don Cohen)
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pierpaolo Bernardi writes:
 > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Don Cohen
 > <[email protected]> wrote:
 > 
 > >   > Conformity could be restored by having CL:PI defined as a constant
 > >   > variable bound to double-float, and to have another variable EXT:PI
 > >   > bound to the changing long-float value.
 > >
 > >   Would still be not conforming.
 > >
 > > Although the suggestion above would not be strictly conforming, I
 > > think it would be an improvement in that (let (pi)) would signal an
 > > error and constantp would return the expected result.
 > 
 > At the cost of every computation involving pi and long floats
 > returning wrong answers!

Why do you think they're wrong?

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