core-libs-dev Digest, Vol 131, Issue 19

[Jonathan Bluett-Duncan]

 Okay. Do you have any citations that we can refer to to confirm for
ourselves that this is indeed a recognised need?

Cheers,
Jonathan


On 4 March 2018 at 05:24, A Z <poweruserm at live.com.au> wrote:

> To who it may concern,
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> 'There was a JSR to add a new mode'
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> then I suppose I would be asking for that change on float and double, that
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> as well as an extra mathematics class for BigDecimal.
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> Despite all the time since 1.1, these are necessary changes,
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> since having to use BigDecimal for all accurate arithmetic begins
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> to waste memory, instructions, and the presently unavoidable
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> translation betwee get/set (float or double) and compute (BigDecimal)
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> and convert to (float or double).
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> These are in fact not opinions, but very great needs that the Software
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> community has needed from java for a very long time now,
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> despite statement in the Java Language Specification.
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> . . .