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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Why no 'Floor for fixed point types
Date: 24 Oct 2003 12:00:21 -0400
Date: 2003-10-24T16:03:55+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ullrawrqi.fsf@nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F98508F.2030300@comcast.net

"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. 

-- 
-- Stephe



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-24 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-23 20:09 Why no 'Floor for fixed point types Duncan Sands
2003-10-23 22:06 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-24 16:00   ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2003-10-24 18:13     ` Duncan Sands
2003-10-23 23:10 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-24 21:46 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-25  4:29   ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-25 20:42     ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-25 22:40       ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-27 18:59         ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-28  1:19           ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-28 18:23             ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-28 18:34               ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-29 19:26               ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-30  4:55                 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-28 18:10         ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-27 18:49       ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-28 18:32         ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-29 19:29           ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-30 23:41             ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-31 22:25               ` Randy Brukardt
2003-11-06  2:41                 ` Nick Roberts
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