On 9/23/13, Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about making an option of it?
It's up to the fpc devels. > Anyhow, if the function accepts invalid combinations, what should it > return? For some, the answer would be obvious (IIII), but some combinations > are indeed ambiguous (IIIIM) So that we maybe could accept unambiguous > invalid combinations, but I don't see how to accept ambiguous ones. If it accepts, then it should apply the subtraction rule: only the (one) numeral left to the other (bigger one) can be subtracted. So IIIM would be III + IM = 3 + 1000-1 = 1002 (and not 1000-3 = 997) There should be no ambiguity there, it's only a pain to watch it. Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
