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-Thread: 103376,16dbd7ecc6a3d50c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!atl-c03.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news-rtr.nyroc.rr.com!news-out.nyroc.rr.com!twister.nyroc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "REH" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Ada decimal types X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Message-ID: <_fN6g.23076$ZQ3.4192@twister.nyroc.rr.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 18:59:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.205.134.80 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.nyroc.rr.com 1146855546 69.205.134.80 (Fri, 05 May 2006 14:59:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 14:59:06 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4102 Date: 2006-05-05T18:59:06+00:00 List-Id: 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