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From: albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: FP number syntax
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In article <099ee41be09b247d3b231cf91377b7a2@www.novabbs.com>,
mhx <mhx@iae.nl> wrote:
>I have used DPL sporadically:
<SNIPPED examples of assemblers>

>Found 25 occurrence(s) in 6 file(s), 35346 ms
>
>Given it is in the assembler and the postscript plotter, I would not be
>a happy customer when it proved to be lacking.

Given that the use of DPL is system dependant, that is not
consequential. Or would you claim that all this source
is strictly ISO-compliant?

I have used DPL only in the following way:
it is initialised as null pointer. After parsing it points
in the input stream to a decimal point if any.
Then the number interpreters can use it every which way.
So the concept is useful, but not so much amenable to
standardisation.

>
>-marcel

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