[Info-vax] New VSI Roadmap (yipee!)

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> I think, at this point, you are just being difficult on purpose.  I
> can think of a number of ways to do money using 16 bit signed integers
> that gives you a greater range than your example.  As a minimum mine
> would be -32767.0000 to 32768.0000.  And another order of magnitude is
> possible but efficiency starts getting in the way eventually.  And none
> of this even enters into the concept of using strings as numbers and
> doing all your own math the same way you did it in grade school.  :-)
> 
> bill
> 

Difficult?  Perhaps.

As you should be aware, there is usually multiple ways to do things. 
What sort of bothers me in this world is when someone declares that 
something is impossible, while it's being done right in front of them.

As for those worrying about absolute precision with currency, when the 
CEO of a distribution company wants to see the monthly bookings and 
billings, he may want to see it rounded to thousands, and most 
definitely not pennys.

All I did was two things, first mentioned that we have been very 
successful in using FP for currency, and second asked for a rounding 
function as part of a language.

For the first, isn't success itself a vindication?