Ulrich Hobelmann  <u.hobelmann@web.de> wrote:
+---------------
| Rob Warnock wrote:
| > Not really:
| >     > (let ((lambda +)
| > 	    (if /))
| > 	(lambda (if 120 5 6) 47))
| >     51
| >     > 
| 
| Scheme48:
|  > (let ((lambda +)
|              (if /))
|          (lambda (if 120 5 6) 47))
| 
| Error: wrong number of arguments
|         ('#{Procedure 90 /} 120 5 6)
+---------------

This looks like a limitation of Scheme48. Is (/ 120 5 6) also rejected?

In R5RS 6.2.5 "Numerical operations", "/" is defined to accept more than
two arguments, and contains these examples [and R4RS concurs]:

    (/ 3 4 5)  ===>  3/20
    (/ 3)      ===>  1/3


-Rob

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