I realize it's not really new. I was making a small poke at the concept in general. As a COBOL programmer its not something I generally have to concern myself with.
>________________________________ > From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 7:41 PM >Subject: Re: COBOL packed decimal > >In <[email protected]>, on >07/13/2012 > at 03:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> said: > >>Negative zero, huh? Must be that new math, thing. :-) > >New? You had negative zero in the ones complement and sign-magnitude >computers; the former still survive at Unisys. > >-- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> >We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
