Re: rounding

From: Richard Maine (nospam_at_see.signature)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: 08 Jun 2004 16:04:20 -0700

robert.corbett@sun.com (Robert Corbett) writes:

> Richard Maine <nospam@see.signature> wrote in message news:<m1aczeuldr.fsf@macfortran.local>...
> > ...I realize
> > that Bob didn't explicitly say that the interpretation alluded to was
> > an official interpretation from J3/WG5, but it would sure be easy to
> > get that misimpression....
>
> I did not mean to say and, as noted, I did not say that there was an
> official interpretation from J3 or WG5 that NINT is required to return
> an integer other than the nearest integer. I might have hoped that by
> noting that the Fortran 2003 draft had changed its wording, I would have
> left the opposite impression, but apparently I did not.

Which I suppose just shows that sometimes we need interpretations of
clf postings in addition to interpretations of the standard, since
both are at times subject to misreading. :-)

Actually, that shouldn't be a surprise, since clf postings are usually
released with a lot less review than the standard. I've certainly
said plenty of things in my postings that could be misinterpreted (or
were just plain wrong). 

-- 
Richard Maine                       |  Good judgment comes from experience;
email: my first.last at org.domain  |  experience comes from bad judgment.
org: nasa, domain: gov              |        -- Mark Twain

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