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 02:26:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question Date: 15 Aug 2002 02:26:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208150126.ac9f65e@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029403599 8719 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2002 09:26:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Aug 2002 09:26:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28053 Date: 2002-08-15T09:26:39+00:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif" wrote in message news:... > Ada decimal types (as currently defined) are fixed-point > types. > > Are you asking for decimal floating-point? Decimal floating-point would be quite useless in financial applications as far as I can see (COBOL does not have this facility). What you need in financial calculations is decimal fixed-point, and very occasionally (this has only recently been included in the COBOL standard) binary fpt.