> However: do we really want to do this anyway? If you demand that the
> user indicate whether a given constant is integer or real, you lessen
> the risk of doing the wrong thing with his or her data. Specifically,
> going to floating point means giving up accuracy in representation,
> and this may not be something we want to do without user permission.
>
I never auto-convert integer to float unless I have to.
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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
