Re: [Oorexx-devel] Numeric Digits in 64-bit mode

[Mike C. <MF...@uk...>]

> Ummm, Mike, this behavior was chosen after first consulting with you
> on how it should be handled.  It's a bit late to suddenly decide this
> is a bad behavior. 

I thought I said then that I thought it was a bad idea... :-)

>                   But making 9 digits the default for 64-bits forces
> similar decision making, because suddenly the full limits of what's
> available to you is no longer there.

Not sure I follow.  One has always been able to set numeric digits > 9. 

If the default changes from implementation to implementation, then one has 
to add an explicit Numeric Digits in everything to be sure of getting 
identical results.

(Note I'm not talking about the 9-digit limit on arguments to BIFs, and 
the like ... and I think those have already been lifted in some cases, 
like Stream, anyway?  Those are more like implementation limits, and yes, 
those will change from implementation to implementation and programmers 
dealing with Big Objects and streams have to worry about those 
underlying/system limits anyway.) 

Mike







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