From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec68713820981fe9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William A Whitaker Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments Date: 1997/08/22 Message-ID: <33FD19B8.5458@erols.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 267806211 References: <33FBD411.3B4A@erols.com> Organization: Erol's Internet Services X-Received-On: 22 Aug 1997 04:47:52 GMT Reply-To: whitaker@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Give me a better name. Float is out since it is pre-empted by Ada. We are simulating ATLAS whlch uses the term "DECIMAL", which I believe is also pre-empted, and further is a poor discription for a binary floating point number. I cannot use the term "INTEGER" either. This has been repaced by "NUMBER" and is used to count the number of cycles or pulses, designate the Nth harmonic, etc. Remember AdaTPD (P1446) is not a language itself. It is a thick applications binding to ATLAS and code using AdaTPD packages will be freely mixed with pure Ada. Whitaker Brian Rogoff wrote: > > On 21 Aug 1997, Robert Dewar wrote: > > I guess this is really a complaint at the P1446 standard (which I do not > > have a copy of), but I really dislike the use of the term Real, as opposed > > to Float, in programming languages. It just serves to feed confusion of the > > kind that has been so evident in the separate thread on guidelines for use > > of floating-point arithmetic. > > I emphatically agree that "Real" should not be used as the name for the > floating point type of a language. > > Even the term "Real" itself for real numbers is suspicious. All numbers are > really imaginary, unless you believe Kronecker in which case integers > aren't. :-) :-) > > -- Brian