On Mar 29, 4:15 pm, an...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Anton Ertl)
wrote:
> Bruce McFarling <agil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >If FICL is a C-based forth, it should be straightforward to add
> >REPRESENT. sprintf itself would be the core function
> REPRESENT is pretty obviously modeled after ecvt(); they missed some
> things in the transfer, as Ed has pointed out, and they also did not
> provide an fcvt() variant.
I just looked at a page describing ecvt() and fcvt() and I don't see
what is missing from REPRESENT together with already existing CORE
facilities if someone wants to reconstruct them. The signed exponent
is returned, the sign, and the representation of the absolute value of
the significant normalized between 0 and 1, which makes it
straightforward to place the decimal point anywhere desired and adjust
the exponent to suit.
However, it seems that people want to have a Comus word that puts the
pieces together in a straightforward way.
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