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  3. March 2005

RE: Making sense of 4-byte binary fields

James H. H. Lampert wrote...

>>Anybody have any idea what the RPG designers were smoking when they
>>decided to make it the number of decimal digits, and to actually
>>generate the extra code to clamp it to that specified number of 
>>decimal digits?

I think it was nothing more than weighing the options and making a decision.
The bad news is they often don't bring in outsiders (I don't consider
ex-IBMers outsiders by the way) to offer comments about new features, often
until after they've made a decision. By then it is too late anyway. So why
do they bother?

-Bob

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