Re: [Scheme-reports] Three really picky points

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Vincent Manis scripsit:

> How about `Rational operations such as + should always produce exact
> results where possible when given exact arguments'?

On reflection, I think the definition of SHOULD does cover this.
"There may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances [for an
implementation] to ignore a particular item", namely that it does not
allow arbitrarily large exact numbers.

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