Re: DECAda/VMS - calling GETJPI

[fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)]

dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>What the meeting in England did was decide to change the way
>modular operations were handled, and in particular to change the semantics
>of conversion to avoid the implicit modular conversion. There were a number
>of closely related issues, and when considered together, it was clearly
>an advantageous change, as evidenced by the fact that the vote in favor
>of this change was unanimous by delegations.

It would be helpful if someone were to give a brief explanation
of the arguments in favour of this design decision.

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