Re: Issue: REAL-NUMBER-TYPE (version 2)

[Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>]

> Discussion:
> 
>   The name "non-complex number" is incorrect because future
>   implementations may wish to include numerical types which are neither
>   complex nor real.  [e.g. pure imaginary numbers or quaternions]
>   
>   The name "scalar" is incorrect because the mathematical concept of
>   scalar may indeed include complex numbers.
> 
>   Fortran and Pascal use the name "real" to mean what CL calls
>   SINGLE-FLOAT.  [More about F and P.]

Scheme uses REAL to mean more or less what's being proposed for CL.