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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7cda96e9413b780c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-30 02:05:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library? Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:58:37 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <3D4575F4.8090408@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1028019873 5249 195.25.228.57 (30 Jul 2002 09:04:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:04:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27479 Date: 2002-07-30T10:58:37+02:00 List-Id: a �crit dans le message news: Y6f19.18869$vX4.189933792@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > Ada's fixed point types are > nothing but integers with the compiler handling the scaling. And arrays are nothing but an address with the compiler handling the indexing.... Kidding apart, handling the scaling requires care, and having fixed points in the language relieves the programmer from a delicate task. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr