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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,18f7f6e041b3e0bf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-15 09:17:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D5BD43F.D85D3CF3@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question References: <5ee5b646.0208150126.ac9f65e@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:17:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.148.61 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1029428272 66.75.148.61 (Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:17:52 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:17:52 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28058 Date: 2002-08-15T16:17:52+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > Decimal floating-point would be quite useless in financial > applications as far as I can see (COBOL does not have this Just out of curiousity, do people use decimal arithmetic for monetary systems that aren't decimal? E.g., pence/shillings/pounds don't decompose nicely into decimals to start with. Just curious if there are programming languages that have built-in support (language or library) to handle such? -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** Humility? Why would I need to show some humility?