Re: Edge case conversions, exceptions to IEEE FPA
Baker, Michel and P1788 members
R. Baker Kearfott wrote 2008/11/11 Tue PM 12:03:03 GMT
in response to Michel Hack:
> I am in total agreement with this. My stand (as a
> member of the committee) is that float to
> interval conversion should be to a singleton
> interval. (However, see my comments about
> external string to interval conversion.)
I agree completely (as an individual - as a Tech Ed I guess I should be impartial).
For one thing, with this choice it seems to me it is not a "luxury" for the standard to support all available floating point formats,
but pretty trivial. Conversions between different formats (not only between single and double but say from double to decimal64)
are just by "tightest enclosure" and become simple to define and simple to explain to a user.
John Pryce
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