RE: CL Paramter Passing - revisited

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If you search the archives. A person a while back had a really good
explanation about that...

-----Original Message-----
From: Narayanan Pillai [mailto:strqst400@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 1:19 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: CL Paramter Passing - revisited - why

--- Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org> wrote:
> there will be a million answers to this one.
> Numeric is packed 15 digits with 10 before the
> decimal point and 5 after the point.

I learned this when I started out, but I haven't got a
satisfactory answer to why this happens. I guess I am
asking whether this is by design or whether this is a
by-product of some other part of the design?

Narayanan R Pillai

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RE: CL Paramter Passing - revisited - why