[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>On 1/28/2023 8:28 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2023 6:19 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> On 2023-01-28 23:35, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> On 1/28/2023 3:01 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>>>>>> Consider the case where the numbers represent money.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Who cares what the numbers represent?  For example, if you round to
>>
>> One of the absolute FIRST things that I was told about floating point
>> variables in my first programming class was to NEVER use them to represent
>> money.
>
>What if you didn't have a choice?
>
>RSTS/E V04b
>
>Signed word integers
>Strings
>Single and double D-float
>
>That's all there was ...

Signed integers are fine.  Read and write with a . added before the last two
digits, so the integer contains cents.  That was very common practice.
--scott
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