18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
2:25 p.m.
On 10/18/2011 09:25 AM, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
Ada 95 Reference Manual ISO/IEC 8652:1995(E) p. 45
section 3.5.9 Fixed
Point Types:
"A fixed point type is either an ordinary fixed point type, or a decimal
fixed point type. The error bound of a fixed point type is specified
as an
absolute value, called the delta of the fixed point
type."
That suggests to me there is a guarantee against loss of precision.
Why do
you feel otherwise?
Because that only specifies the precision of the type. It both doesn't
guarantee the precision of operations on the type, and doesn't help you
with keeping track of the precision of results of limited-precision
operations.
> that isn't what David was asking for, or is
only a small part of it.
I'm sure he's glad you're his mom. Maybe
you could let him speak for
himself
and we can hear what he thinks.
I wasn't referring to what David was thinking, which clearly I don't
know. I was referring to what David wrote, which clearly wasn't what
Ada95 provides.