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Subject: Re: Simple Pascal question
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On 8/4/2024 5:53 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> Why didn't I do this?
> 
> I did think about it, but what about more complicated expression.
> 
> x := 1.5 * 1.5;
> 
> Is that multiply an IEEE S_float multiply or VAX F_float multiply? 
> Logically, it would have been an IEEE S_float multiply and then 
> converted to VAX F_float.  I didn't think it was a problem that needed 
> to be solved.

I was sort of expecting literals to be of the type determined by
suffix and compiler switch and that mixed expressions would be
converted similar to various other mixed expressions.

That was not the case.

Probably not worth spending time on "fixing". It must be
an extremely rare case.

Arne