On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is directed primarily to the project committers. Mike Cowlishaw > has raised the issue that the default digits setting for 64-bit > implementations should remain at 9 digits rather than being raised to > the higher value of 18 that will be used for "numbers used internally > by Rexx". I've been following that of course. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that my background lends much weight to my conclusions. If anyone remembers, I'd prefer to have it as big as a 64-bit number allows. <grin> Both Rick *and* Mike talked me out of that. > I'm not terribly in favor of this, I'm not either. But, I have a high regard for Mike's opinion, as I'm sure we all do, so I think we do need to take some time to decide what to do here. * The one point Mike made about the same program running on the same OS producing different results depending on the CPU type, is the point I'm most concerned about. * If the 'right' thing to do is change the default back to 9 on the 64-bit builds, then I think that the delay it causes is necessary. Still, I can't think of any program I have done, or would have done, that would fail if the default numeric digits was bigger at some time in the future than it was at the time I wrote it. That doesn't mean that those programs don't exist, but (I just read David's post,) I have to wonder if those programs really do exist, or it is just a hypothetical 'they could exist.' -- Mark Miesfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
