ross at soi.city.ac.uk wrote: > [...] True, though Hugs is already inconsistent with H98 in its printing of > floating point values. This is not quite right: Numeric.showFloat would be OK (modulo "arithmetic overflow" :-), but Hugs currently uses C's snprintf, resulting in "inf"/"nan", not "Infinity"/"NaN" on my SuSE 9.1 box. Cheers, S.