Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity)

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Picture representations are only a type conversion away. :-) Much of the 
picture features are just naturally geared to something with a fixed 
decimal point - especially since it usually has to do with money and so 
forth. But at least it isn't too hard to have some fixed-size numeric 
thing and just convert integers, etc to it for when you want pictures.

Still, its always a nice thing to have for the sake of convenience...

MDC

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> Ada provides for this, but IIRC it is limited to only
> decimal types (which is a pain). It would
> be nice to see more support for this in Ada, to make
> easy to do from floating point or other
> numeric types (even integers).
> 


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