18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
8:47 a.m.
David Cantrell wrote:
I wish there was a widely available, widely known
general purpose
programming language which had a "number with precision" type, which
would Do The Right Thing when doing things like multiplying values
together - ie, decreasing the precision - and would let you specify a
required minimum precision for results or function parameters, with
exceptions being thrown if those can't be achieved.
vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
I am almost certain Ada 95 provides this. You can
certainly specify the
number of digits of precison and create your own type or subtype
Yes.
and I
believe the runtime automatically protects you from loss of precision.
Even if it automatically protected you from loss of precision, which it doesn't, that
isn't what David was asking for, or is only a small part of it.