08-251 To: J3 From: Michael Ingrassia Subject: Public Comment J32037 Date: 2008 July 08 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Commenter's Subject was "The g0 edit descriptor" According to the draft document: C1007 (R1006) For the G edit descriptor, d shall be specified if and only if w is not zero. To me this eliminates any value the g0 feature might have. What's needed is something like list-directed output but with the precision controlled by the programmer. For example, in order for an input item to have the same internal value as the original value that was output, the output must generally carry at least 9 digits (for IEEE single precision). If the ability to specify d were present, G would probably become my main output edit descriptor. I was looking forward to g0 before I found that it wasn't allowed a d part. ----------------------------------------------------------------------