* Re: Float IO
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@ 1999-10-11 0:00 ` James Mcleod
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From: James Mcleod @ 1999-10-11 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote in message
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> From the Ada 95 RM:
>
> "The number of digits of the fractional part is given by Aft,
> or is one if Aft equals zero."
>
> The why of this baffles me. Why is it wrong to ask for zero digits
> after the decimal? If it is wrong, why doesn't Float_IO just raise an
> exception instead of correcting the parameter and giving me something
> that I never asked for?
>
>
> Al
>
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