Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!willett!ForthNet From: ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: ANS TC Magnet for Division Message-ID: <1320.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP> Date: 12 Jul 90 02:56:31 GMT Organization: String, Scotch tape, and Paperclips. (in Pgh, PA) Lines: 29 Category 10, Topic 17 Message 70 Wed Jul 11, 1990 D.RUFFER [Dennis] at 00:44 EDT Re: GENE LEFAVE You did cheat on +EDIT, but I can understand why. > division. I found it incredible that the ANSI committee is > spending so much time and energy on what is for the vast majority > of programmers a non-issue. Before the 83 Standard, division WAS a non-issue. However, some of the 83 Std's committee decided to specify what no other language dared to, what happens when you divide with negative operands. They even had the audacity to choose the least common way of doing it! Because they choose to change the world, the ANS TC has no choice but to try to rectify the situation. So, don't blame it on the ANS TC, blame it on the wisdom (?) of those who came before. > I don't think that any one expects perfection at the expense > of some type of agreement. You obviously haven't been to a TC meeting yet. DaR ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated process. Report problems to: uunet!willett!dwp or willett!dwp@hobbes.cert.sei.cmu.edu