PL/I has never had integers. The arithmetic rules for scaled fixed point are different from those for integers. In integer arithmetic, (4/3)*6 is 6 That's not the result you get in PL/I.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Robin Vowels <robi...@dodo.com.au> Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 7:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Constant Identifiers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seymour J Metz" <sme...@gmu.edu> To: <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020 5:33 AM > PL/I doesn't have integers. PL/I has always had integers. > The ratiio 4/3 is FIXED BIN, No it not. It is FIXED DECIMAL -- as I said a few days ago. And it hasn't changed since. > with some number of bits after the binary point. DECIMAL digits after the decimal point, because the reault is FIXED DECIMAL, not binary. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
