My opinion on this whole thing is: don't reinvent the wheel.
How about interfacing Unicon to the GNU MP library?
This would need a good interface to C, my greatest wish for Unicon.
Kostas
Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just an additional comment. Fixed-point arithmetic is surprisingly
difficult on binary computers (where's the IBM 750 when you need it?),
as Barry points out. For example, 0.1 base 10 is a *repeating fraction*
in binary.
A binary coded decimal extension would be nice. While we were at it
we could put in EBCDIC support. :)
Actually in my previous work, which I did use Unicon, I could have
used BCD and EBCDIC support. I think that's something you'd probably
want to add as a library (using loadfunc), rather than directly in
iconx. It would be natural, I think, to store both unpacked and
packed BCD values as Unicon strings.
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