Re: [Scheme-reports] ballot question #229: EQV? and NaN

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Alex Shinn scripsit:

> By all means, but the ballot item was unclear and will require a
> re-vote.  In the meantime, the draft we submit with the call for
> formal comments will need to revert to either R5RS (unspecified) or
> R6RS.

As I noted in my long email to Will, R5RS = different, not unspecified,
given that we define (= +nan.0 x) as false for any number x.  (I just
added this to the draft.)

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