Ruckus: Racket for iOS

Post by objecthub » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

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Author from LispPad here... Polar complex number literals are actually not part of R7RS and (make-polar ...) would need to be used for writing portable code. Complex number literals with infinite parts are supported, but I noticed that LispPad might behave differently as it does apply mathematical equivalences that are being ignored in other Scheme implementations. Let me know if you see a behavior that violates the…

Thanks for working on LispPad, I'm really enjoying using it. > Polar complex number literals are actually not part of R7RS I actually thought they were part of the spec. Specifically, I am referring to the last paragraph from section 6.2.5 of R7RS small https://small.r7rs.org/attachment/r7rs.pdf > This is the excerpt from the pdf: 6.2.5. Syntax of numerical constants ... There are two notations provided for non-real…