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Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft
Date 2015-12-06 11:48 -0800
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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> "The purpose of this proposal is to eliminate these ambiguous
> conditions by specifying that if a signed double integer

But it should also deal with single integers, which can lose precision
when converted to single (32-bit) floats in the common situation of
32-bit integer cells.  It could also be useful to have unsigned
conversions but I guess that's separate.

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RfD: D>F and S>F second draft C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2015-11-29 17:19 -0500
  Re: D>F and S>F second draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-12-06 13:02 +1100
    Re: D>F and S>F second draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-12-06 03:28 +0100
      Re: D>F and S>F second draft "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-12-06 04:01 -0500
    Re: D>F and S>F second draft Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-06 02:27 +0000
      Re: D>F and S>F second draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-12-06 12:55 -0800
  RfD: D>F and S>F second draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-12-06 10:18 -0800
    RfD: D>F and S>F second draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-12-06 10:55 -0800
      Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-12-06 09:31 -1000
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-06 11:48 -0800
          Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-12-06 12:15 -0800
            Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-12-06 14:57 -1000
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-12-06 12:07 -0800
          Re: RfD: D>F and S>F second draft C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2015-12-06 20:04 -0500

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