Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!SEI.CMU.EDU!Marc.Graham From: Marc.Graham@SEI.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada and Decimal Arithmetic Message-ID: <8806282157.AA03259@bx.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 88 21:57:03 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 I was fascinated to note that in neither Ed Berard's post on Ada and commercial usage, nor in any of its responses, was the issue of Ada and decimal arithmetic mentioned. I would have thought that Ada's lack of support for decimal arithmetic is a major impediment to the use of Ada in commercial applications. Indeed, if I were asked to render a professional judgement on Ada to a commercial client, lack of decimal support would in itself be enough to reject it. Does anyone share this view? Does anyone have a solution (in the form of Ada code)? Does anyone know of a compiler which supports the rep clause: for T'small use T'delta; when delta is a power of ten? Has anyone else heard the rumor: "It'll be fixed in the next release" (of the ACVC)? Marc H. Graham Software Engineering Institute marc@sei.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University (412) 268 7784 Pittsburgh, PA 15213