>From the documentation:
LOSTDIGITS
raised if a number used in an arithmetic operation has more digits than the
current setting of
NUMERIC DIGITS. Leading zeros are not counted in this comparison.
LOSTDIGITS only applies to the values used at the start of the calculation,
not with rounding performed on the operation result. Since you have never
used as number containing more than 9 significant digits, the condition is
never triggered.
Rick
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Walter Pachl
<christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at>wrote:
> This little program:
>
> Signal On Lostdigits
> x=999999997
> Do i=1 To 5
> x=x+1
> say x
> End
> Exit
> lostdigits:
> Say 'This is what SIZE is in PL/I'
>
> shows this output:
>
> 999999998
> 999999999
> 1.00000000E+9
> 1.00000000E+9
> 1.00000000E+9
>
> I have expected that the lostdigits condition is trapped. It ain't!!.
> Am I wrong (again)??
> Walter
>
> PS: I just added such information for PL/I on rosettacode.org for PL/I
>
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