Re: PL/I integers: Constant Identifiers

2020-09-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
(Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Robin Vowels Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I integers: Constant Identifiers From: "Seymour J

Re: PL/I integers: Constant Identifiers

2020-09-09 Thread Robin Vowels
From: "Seymour J Metz" Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020 5:33 AM PL/I doesn't have integers. It does. Believe it or not, the constants 4 and 3 that you wrote in the next sentence are decimal INTEGERS. The ratiio 4/3 is FIXED BIN, with some number of bits after the binary point. No. The di