Re: Why no 'Floor for fixed point types

[Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>]

On Friday 24 October 2003 18:00, Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:
> > type Radians is delta Pi/1000 range -Pi..Pi;
> > for Radians'small use Pi/1000;
> >
> > where the only integer value of the type is zero.
> >
> > For type Radians what should Radians'Floor return?
>
> An Integer, that is the truncated value.
>
> Hmm, I guess it needs to be generic, so you can specify which integer
> type to use for the result.

Though given the amazing rules for multiplication of different fixed point
types (result type determined by the context), I doubt that would stop
a determined language designer...

Thanks for your comments,

Duncan.