Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 05:13 PM 7/20/2003, Misha Bergal wrote: > > >Something seems to be wrong to me tough. The programming languages > >(environments) introduced lately do not implement fixed-point only > decimal > >numbers. > > Fixed-point is used in applications driven by external requirements, not by > what is or isn't available in programming languages. > > >... > > > >I believe that we might be on the wrong track here. It seems to me that > we > >might be doing something obsolete and not needed any more (in form > proposed > >by the submitter). > > That's possible, but my guess is that it is going to be a long time before > floating-point becomes acceptable in the broad world of business, industry, > and government. Try it on your tax return and see what kind of a response > you get:-? Beman, I think that Misha's point in mentioning programming languages that currently support a floating point decimal type (or types) is that there is already acceptance of floating point in that broad world. I believe that the use of floating point is mandated by certain industry regulations in some jurisdictions. By "long time," do you mean 5 years or 25 years? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
