At 00:10 12/31/98 -0500, Nick Demos wrote:
>What?  No packed decimal.  Suppose the number is too big to fit
>into
>an I type field.  I find your rules to lack flexibility to fit
>all
>cases.
>

In the types of business applications I do and that my client base, it has
never been necessary to use packed-decimal or real, or anything else other
than X and I.  If a situation came up where an I-type would not work, then
I would of course use whatever type did work, but I have yet to see a
situation like that yet.