Re: Java SE Language Changes

2018-03-07 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/03/18 03:46, A Z wrote: > Is there any route forward with these changes? I believe not. Java floating-point arithmetic is specified by IEEE-754. If you want something different, Java is not the language you are looking for. -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd.

Java SE Language Changes

2018-03-06 Thread A Z
from Zachary Mitchell ... 'But you seem to be alone on that score.' -People have in fact just quit on this with one language in time. That doesn't mean that valid points don't continue to exist, and mending changes shouldn't happen. I am in fact quite far from alone. 'Basic Java arithmetic