Re: Re: Decimal type question [Prothon] (was: Re: Re: Decimal type question [Prothon])

 --- Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: 

> I would still need to have a separate binary
> floating point type that the
> programmer would manually specify when he knows he
> wants the performance of
> the hardware and is willing to live with the binary
> limitations.
> 
> How about a basic built-in numeric default type
> called Decimal with all the
> default numeric constant formats (123, 123.0, &
> 123e0) and a separate
> binary double hardware type called Float with the
> constant format of 0f0,
> 1f0, -1.3f-34, etc. where the letter "f" replaces
> the letter "e"?
> 

I was just going to suggest such a beast. This
actually seems more interesting and potentially more
intuitive for new programmers (new as in doesn't know
any other language). 

The above proposal gets +2 vote from me. 

Now if only you were amenable to ":=" for assignment
and "=" for value equality... (Oh no! Not that again!
:->)


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