There is evidence that IBM's COBOL people are thinking hard about making Mike Cowlishaw's ANSI-standard DFP available in COBOL. They may even have progressed further. Tom can, however, speak for himself and will, I suspect, do so.
The problems with HFP and BFP in business applications center on their rounding and conversion practices. These practices are not 'wrong', but they do violate accountants' expectations. DFP behaves just as those who know only decimal arithmetic would expect it to behave. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
