On Saturday 05 February 2005 00:56, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > I was thinking to overload the operators with ones that give full
> > 16-bit precision, and have functions for approximations like this.
>
> We're going to end up with a whole bunch of wild and wooly precision
> hacks for both fixed point and floating point, and these will be all
> mixed together.  Trying to decipher exactly what's happening by
> referring back to class definitions is just a an error-prone makework
> project.  My humble opinion of course.

Urk, let me retract, that's not a bad compromise you suggested.  The 
confusion starts when you define multiple arithmetic types, each with 
its own precision idiosyncracies and implied conversions.

Regards,

Daniel
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