[GemStone-Smalltalk] #asInteger truncates instead of rounding

[Bruce Badger]

Hear hear.  The ANSI standard should not be viewed as inert, but should be
a living evolving (but crisply versioned) document.  I'd still love to see
an on-gong process revived.

I agree with the argument that changing asInteger would be a bad idea.
 Better to remove asInteger from the standard and add in it's place
asIntegerRounded and asIntegerTruncated (or similar).  Explicit is always
better IMO anyway.

Bruce


On 2 February 2014 16:26, <martin_kraft at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> we do rely on VisualWorks answering the same result as GemStone, which is
> truncating towards zero.
>
> If you could get VisualWorks >= v9.10 aligned with GemStone >= v3.2 and
> the ANSI standard in some future version I would be happy to support this
> questionable approach once we upgrade both GS and VW.
>
>
> Nevertheless, my personal opinion of "asInteger" sent to a number is that
> it should truncate towards zero.
>
> Other languages do that since many years.
>
>
> Maybe a reason to revisit the Smalltalk ANSI standard for "asInteger" ...
> :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin F.Kraft
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Richard Sargent" <richard.sargent at gemtalksystems.com>
> *To: *gemstone-smalltalk at lists.gemtalksystems.com
> *Sent: *Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:58:05 PM
> *Subject: *[GemStone-Smalltalk] #asInteger truncates instead  of rounding
>
>
> As some of you may have noticed, #asInteger truncates. ANSI Smalltalk
> specifies that it should round. Consequently, we are considering changing
> this with the other ANSI compatibility changes we are making for the 3.2
> release.
>
> I would like to know whether anyone is relying on the the truncation
> behaviour or would rather we do not change this.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
>
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