Re: reading a float?

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• Subject: Re: reading a float?
• From: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>
• Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz> writes:

> It must be possible though. DOOD must handle it in some manner (The
> Dylan Object Oriented Database).

I just checked DOOD. DOOD stores the float data in binary format using
(from module dylan-extensions) the methods:

encode-single-float
encode-double-float
decode-single-float
decode-double-float

These translate between the <float> types and <machine-words> used to
represent it.

Chris.
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