[clean-list] Re: 1.Floating Point Support (clean-list digest)

[Siegfried Gonzi]

clean-list-admin@cs.kun.nl wrote:

>   1. Floating Point Support (RT Happe)
>
>     Most hardware conforms, more or less well, to the IEEE 754 floating
> point standard;  most programming languages don't support standard features
> (precisions, rounding modes, exceptions) adequately;  Clean doesn't
> either.

I do not know what you really mean, but rounding errors are inavoidable (in
everey language); that is my naive assumption.

How can a programming language active control the rounding errors? A number is
rounded up or down.

But hasn't Clean incorporated the BigNumerical-Library for that issues?


Regards,
S. Gonzi