Re: compilation problem with module function interface definition

James Giles wrote:

(snip)

My own preprocessor treats KINDless literals as type RATIONAL.
Mixed mode between RATIONAL and REAL gives a REAL result
of the appropriate precision.  So, 1.23 is *EXACTLY* 123/100,
which is then converted to REAL of the same precision as X when
the above assignement is done.  (The actual conversion is done
in the preprocessor in this case since the argument to the conversion
is a statically known.)


Maybe in a few years decimal floating point will get popular, and
this problem will go away.  That is, 1.23 will be exactly 1.23, single
or double precision.  There are people working on an efficient float
decimal system.

-- glen

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