From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] MicroVAX architecture (was: Linux is on-topic)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 18:11:11 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 4:43 PM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
wrote:
And the PL/I and COBOL
> compilers were implementing packed decimal using decimal shadowing.
>
What is decimal shadowing? I see a few references to the term on line, but
no explanations. Thanks.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
There are books that are at once excellent and boring. Those that at
once leap to the mind are Thoreau's Walden, Emerson's Essays, George
Eliot's Adam Bede, and Landor's Dialogues. --Somerset Maugham
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