Am 04.02.2024 um 18:25 schrieb James Richters via fpc-pascal:
I agree with Aadrian 100%
"New behaviour: floating point constants are now considered to be of the lowest precision which doesn't cause data loss"
We are getting data loss!!!! So it's doing it WRONG.
So we are all living with a stupid way of doing things so some Delphi code
won't have warnings?
Who came up with this???????????????
The old way was CORRECT, instead of changing it for everyone making it wrong
for most users, a compiler directive should have been needed to get rid of the
warnings, or ONLY applied in Mode Delphi. Not to make everything incorrect for
everyone unless you add a directive. The problem with this that no one is
expecting to need to add a directive to do things right.
Consider this:
Var
MyVariable : Extended;
MyVariable := 8427 + 33 / 1440.0;
Since I am storing the result in an Extended, I DO NOT EXPECT the 33/1440 to be
a SINGLE, that is NUTS!!
No need to yell.
This is how reasonable programing languages work. The result type depends only on the type of the involved
variables/expressions. *Never* the variable it is assigned to.
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