he's ranting again (Was: Re: Month as Integer (or he's ranting again))
he's ranting again (Was: Re: Month as Integer (or he's ranting again))
- Subject: he's ranting again (Was: Re: Month as Integer (or he's ranting again))
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 19:53:41 +0100
At 16:31 +0100 3/12/00, Richard 23 wrote:
>
Since I can set [snip] PI to 5141.3 and it sticks, they don't seem like
>
>constants
>
to me!
I'm finding this discussion to be fascinating!
I remember that in Fortran you could run something like:
---------- untested
EQUIVALENCE 2,X
X = 2.01
-------------------
and that subsequent calls to the constant "2" would always use the modified
value.
I did not imagine at these times that 20 years later I would make a living
with a language where you can never be sure what "pi" evaluates to.
Apple used to comply rather strictly to the IEEE recommandations. Isn't
there one of those which states the value of pi ?
Emmanuel
ranting again