[fpc-devel] rounding precision error with integer and floating point division

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/18/2011 12:04 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.0#Floating_point_constants

Taking a look at the "go" language:

Here all constants are considered to be of arbitrary precision. This 
also holds for integers !

A constant can be "10<<1000" there.

Compiler magic provides that when assigning such a constant to a really 
existing variable the appropriate thing happens (which of course can be 
an exception).

Seems like nice to me.

-Michael