From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything?
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:31:44 -0500
Date: 2013-02-04T12:31:44-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcck3qovvcv.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: an9uksFhgjpU1@mid.individual.net
Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> Depends. Such type-less "named numbers" (in Ada-speak) have different
> properties than typed constant objects: if you combine them in an
> expression, the compiler uses unbounded-precision and unbounded-range
> arithmetic, ...
That's true for all static expressions, not just ones involving
named numbers.
>... which may or may not be what you want; and they match any
> integer or floating-point type, respectively, which again may or may not
> be what you want.
Right.
- Bob
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2013-01-17 10:33 Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for everything? Ada novice
2013-01-17 14:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-01-17 16:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-17 17:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-17 16:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-18 9:17 ` Ada novice
2013-01-18 17:24 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-18 17:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-18 18:15 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-01-18 18:59 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-19 4:41 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-01-19 6:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-19 14:14 ` Robert A Duff
2013-01-25 12:16 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2013-01-24 10:55 ` Ada novice
2013-01-24 11:47 ` Simon Wright
2013-01-24 14:21 ` Ada novice
2013-01-20 0:05 ` Robin Vowels
2013-01-18 23:06 ` Robin Vowels
2013-01-18 19:09 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-01-18 21:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-19 7:02 ` Ada novice
2013-01-25 12:09 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2013-01-25 12:23 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2013-01-28 9:09 ` Ada novice
2013-02-01 10:53 ` Ada novice
2013-02-01 15:01 ` Shark8
2013-02-02 18:55 ` Ada novice
2013-02-03 4:05 ` Shark8
2013-02-04 6:23 ` Ada novice
2013-02-04 6:43 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 7:27 ` Ada novice
2013-02-04 9:37 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 10:09 ` Ada novice
2013-02-04 14:24 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 16:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-02-04 21:12 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-04 17:31 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2013-02-04 21:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-02-02 21:08 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-02-04 6:17 ` Ada novice
2013-02-05 2:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-06 7:11 ` Ada novice
2013-02-07 6:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-07 8:43 ` Shark8
2013-02-08 3:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-02-08 6:20 ` Ada novice
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