Claims in MUC-I proceedings...

[KMP at MIT-MC (Kent M. Pitman)]

JONL claims in ``LISP: Program is Data'' that you have perfect output for
flonums in MacLISP -- this isn't so. Are you aware? eg,

1.70141182E+38 prints as 1.70141183E+38 which if you try to reread it
will give ;ARITHMETIC OVERFLOW error ...

*Really* losing since my Fortran translator generates this quantity for
Fortran numbers that overflow the precision of our machine (figures a
maximally large number is a good substitution) but I am screwed because
I can't read those text files back into a Lisp to get them compiled.

Re-reading as another number is one thing, but not reading at all is a
real screw.

-kmp