From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments
Date: 1997/08/21
Date: 1997-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.872181519@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33FBD411.3B4A@erols.com
<<For the P1446 standard, it is important that it be concrete and allow
only
the use of the numeric type Real, defined elsewhere.>>
I guess this is really a complaint at the P1446 standard (which I do not
have a copy of), but I really dislike the use of the term Real, as opposed
to Float, in programming languages. It just serves to feed confusion of the
kind that has been so evident in the separate thread on guidelines for use
of floating-point arithmetic.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-21 0:00 SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <33FE221A.547E@gsg.eds.com>
1997-08-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-26 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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