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From: esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 0.0 - DP or FP?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 07:22:04 GMT
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In article <4313@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> warnock@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov
(ARCHIE WARNOCK) writes:
> Frankly, I don't care whether the character is "." or "," - as long as
> it is the same character as used by formatted ASCII - or even EBCDIC.
> The essential point is not to make Forth look like any other computer
> language.  The point is to make Forth able to handle ASCII data.  For
> gosh sakes, people!  ASCII is already adopted as the character set for
> the standard interchange of data.  I _have_ to be able to read that
> data. Make no mistake about it - Forth still has to interchange data
> with the rest of the world. 
> 
> I'm going to restate the obvious here.  The question is _NOT_ what 
> character is used elsewhere to indicate the position of a decimal point. 
> The question is what character is used by Forth to indicate a double 
> precision integer.  The use of the character "." conflicts with its use 
> in standard practice elsewhere.  Is there an ANSI specification for 
> ASCII data representations?  Is it legitimate for ANSI Forth to 
> contradict it?

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the US uses 1,000.00 to represent one
thousand while in europe they use 1.000,00 for the same value.

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