Well, I sent the following to the wrong list. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Carter [mailto:gwcar...@ezlink.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:47 To: 'RexxLA Members mailing list' Subject: RE: [RexxLA] NUMERIC digits.
I am not a heavy REXX technician but I do frequently write and debug small REXXs on my 32-bit workstation that are destined for use there or on my 64-bit servers. I suspect that I am like many others in that I expect REXX to be REXX. If I need more NUMERIC DIGITS I will code the statement to ask for them; otherwise I want the scripts to perform the same no matter where they run. If 64-bit REXX can provide greater capability, fine, but unless I ask for a difference I count on there being no difference. If this discussion is about changing the default, then I would ask that the default not change. That obviously must apply to internal functions as well. -----Original Message----- From: rexxla-members-boun...@mail.rexxla.org [mailto:rexxla-members-boun...@mail.rexxla.org] On Behalf Of Rick McGuire Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:29 To: RexxLA Members mailing list Subject: Re: [RexxLA] NUMERIC digits. Ahem, RTM....check the docs for LOSTDIGITS. Rick On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:22 PM, John Bodoh <john_bo...@infrawise.com> wrote: > All, > > > > I have also been following this thread and I dont understand the problem! > I think that if a script requires more than 9 digits to work correctly, it > will change it with NUMERIC. To me the only time this would ever be an > issue is when a script depends precisely on 9 digits. Like David, I cant > see very many scripts being affected. > > > > To me the bigger problem (because it affects me) is the fact that the > interpreter seems to truncate numbers to 9 digits without telling anyone. I > a number of may scripts, I deal with phone numbers (10 digits without > hyphens). When I, for example, compare one phone number to another, they > may compare equal because only 9 digits are being compared. My program did > not work as I expected it to but it kept on truckn with the false equal > comparison. Rather than change digits, I make it a character string > comparison like: IF Anumber1 <> Anumber2 THEN. > > > > I wish there were a SIGNAL ON TOOMANYDIDIGS instruction where I could catch > these errors. > > > > John. > > > > _______________________________________________ > rexxla-members mailing list -- mailto:rexxla-memb...@mail.rexxla.org > http://rice.safedataisp.net/mailman/listinfo/rexxla-members > > _______________________________________________ rexxla-members mailing list -- mailto:rexxla-memb...@mail.rexxla.org http://rice.safedataisp.net/mailman/listinfo/rexxla-members ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
