On Jan 11, 2017, at 17:14 , Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@gmail.com> wrote:
"james" == james anderson <james.anderson@setf.de> writes:
james> good morning;
On 2017-01-11, at 09:48, Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
Thank you James, thank you Stelian.
The CFFI solution seems very interesting and the codec James pointed me to are also useful.
james> i sent marco an off-line note, in which i had pointed out some code which figures (among other things) in an amqp implementation, where it is figures in buffer codecs. james> for the curious, it is to be found here:
james> https://github.com/lisp/de.setf.utility/tree/master/codecs/float-codecs.lisp
This is also pretty nice and mostly portable. I think with a bit of work it can be made (almost) completely portable using just CL functions. I guess the main problem is constructing infinities. Testing for NaN is pretty easy: (= x x) is always false if x is NaN.
Do you have an idea about how to go ahead and construct infinities? MA -- Marco Antoniotti