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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec68713820981fe9
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments
Date: 1997/08/21
Message-ID: <dewar.872181519@merv>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 265783990
References: <33FBD411.3B4A@erols.com>
Organization: New York University
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-08-21T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


<<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.