"Fare" == Far <Far> writes:
Fare> Thanks a lot, Anton! Fare> Well, here's a valid argument in favor of 'single-float as the Fare> default: making 'double-float the default breaks 22 systems in Fare> Quicklisp (a bit fewer when you consider that some systems only Fare> depended on a broken one, but still), when making it 'single-float Fare> only broke 4 of them, all of which I fixed yesterday. If the default Fare> had to be decided right now, that would indeed make it a strong case Fare> for 'single-float. Stronger to me than any I've seen so far, and one Fare> capable of swaying my opinion indeed.
I'm not really surprised since the initial value (if that's not default, then I don't know what is) for *read-default-float-format* is 'single-float.
Ray