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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: small example, using complex variables in Ada
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:22:54 +0200
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:15:37 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:27:38 +0200, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> a �crit:
>> For output, rounding is specified in the standard. And BTW, the standard
>> does not specify IEEE (fortunately, it did not make the same mistake as
>> Java!).
> Which mistake ? (not to disagree, just to understand)

Making language hardware-dependent.

Plus, IEEE is not very good for computational and engineering tasks. In
particular, when programming in Ada, you should better kill IEEE semantics
regarding overflows for built-in types. E.g.

   type Real is new Float range Float'Range; -- Now it works as it has to

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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