Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]

Eric wrote:
>Again you would be better served by using floating point numbers in this
>situation (That is why your calculator is floating point) at the end you can
>resolve it to a fixed point number by a simple rounding operation.

I would be very leery about recommending the use of floating
point, especially when dollar amounts are involved.  There
are the the concerns with rounding to get proper answers,
along with the limit of 16-17 digits maximum precision.

Float has it's place in modelling physical processes, which
are normally measured with less than perfect accuracy.  This
is an application domain best served by other languages,
such as C.

There's only 1 reason why float was added to the language:
Interopability with other languages.  It was certainly not
added to fill any void in the language itself.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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