Re: Re: negative exponents

I will check this out and try to get a patch out right away. I will notify this message group when it's resolved.
Roger

At 02:52 AM 11/3/2003, you wrote:
>Hi Nigel,
>
>
>>    Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:48:04 +1000
>>    From: [email protected]
>> Subject: negative exponents in negative doubles
>>
>> why does in IDE
>> (setf z 4.0D-5)
>> echo
>> 4.0d-5
>>
>> while
>> (setf zz -4.0D-5)
>> echo
>> -4.0d0
>
>        Whoa... I reproduced your example.  An even simpler version is:
>
>        Try evaluating
>
>-1e+5
>echo
>0.0
>
>        It seems that any negative number for the mantissa will fail, 
>regardless of the exponent.
>
>        This is really bad!  I'm hoping to do some scientific computing in 
>CormanLisp.
>
>        Any patches or suggestions?  My problem is my code might accidently 
>parse text data with -1e+5 without my knowing, and without returning an 
>error, and then evaluating it to 0.0.
>
>Sincerely,
>--Anthony Yan
>
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