Re: Ada decimal types

["REH" <me@you.com>]

<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:Idednavn8KnKA8bZRVn-ig@comcast.com...
> >I do know how fixed points "work."  You are making assumptions about my
>>expectations and the standard.  Both of which are wrong.
>  I tried to figure out "why would he ask such questions?"  and the only
> answer that came to me was the speculation I posted.  I'm certainly glad
> to hear that you understand Ada fixed point.  But now I'm puzzled by
> why you are worried about converting from records to fixed point.

Because there are always "gotchas" the crop up when making drastic changes 
to code.  There are certainly more experienced Ada developers than I in this 
newsgroups.  If there were any issues in making such a change, I would 
definitely want to know about them.  I am making assumptions that the logic 
will be cleaner, safer, and more maintainable if I change the record to a 
decimal type.  My assumptions have been wrong before.  I don't change 
working software lightly, but I have the (rare) opportunity to clean up some 
very dated code.

REH