From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Integer truncation and other recipes
Date: 1996/06/08
Date: 1996-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Jun8194435@organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96May22221027@organon.com
In article <4p4atg$tc5@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) writes:
> Duration(Float'Floor(Float(Now)/60.0)) is a poor substitute for
> Duration'Floor(Now/60.0).
In what respect? Losing what you are really after in a sea of extraneous
junk? If so, the simple fix is to put it in a function (yeah, I know,
everyone will have to hack this one off).
> I think the failure to generalize certain of the floating-point
> attributes to fixed-point types was an unfortunate oversight.
Well, I certainly won't disagree with this.
/Jon
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1996-05-22 0:00 Integer truncation and other recipes Paul Shedlarski
1996-05-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-04 0:00 ` John English
1996-06-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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