[Info-vax] Roadmap

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-01-06, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/2019 7:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2019-01-06, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Pick only one of two, performance or accuracy ....
>>>
>>
>> Does VMS Basic support fixed point ?
>>
>> (I've never used VMS Basic, so I don't know the answer).
>>
>
> Please define "fixed-point".
>
> DECIMAL is supported.
>

In this case that is the answer because I was looking to see if
VMS Basic had a way to store non-integer values without having to
use an approximation for the value so, with the decimal data type
support, the answer is yes.

Simon.

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