- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:54:05 +0100
- To: "'Michael Rys'" <mrys@microsoft.com>, "'Jeni Tennison'" <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: <public-qt-comments@w3.org>, <jkenton@datapower.com>
> I don't think deciding precision based on instance information is > acceptable. Many type systems have precision (and scale) as a > type facet > that should be determined based on the arguments. A system that always maintained decimals to exactly 18 places would be conformant with this proposal. > > Also, I am not yet convinced that anything stricter than > implementation-defined will be acceptable given the wide range of > implementation platforms... > I think it's clear that a specification that allows the result of 10 div 3 to be 3.5 is unacceptable to quite a few of our readers. Michael Kay
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