Re: Fixed-point question

[Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>]

Patrick Noffke <patrick.noffke@gmail.com> writes:

> But for C2 why is the compiler implicitly converting N and D to universal_fixed
> before doing the division?  Isn't it just as valid to treat the constants as
> universal_real and use the root_real "/" operator first and then do the
> conversion?  I don't see this discussed in 8.6 (29).  There must be another
> rule for type conversion taking preference over division.

The "/" for root_real returns root_real, and there is no implicit
conversion from root_real to the fixed point type.  There is
an implicit conversion from universal_real (which is the type
of literals and named numbers) to any numeric type.

- Bob