[DGD]Casting to int

[Felix A. Croes]

Kris Van Hees <aedil at alchar.org> wrote:

> Someone on Viking noticed a rather interesting thing... casting a float  to
> an int actually does rounding, thus (int)0.51 yields 1 rather than 0.  That
> seems to be quite different from e.g. C & Java where casting to an  integer
> type truly returns the integer part of the number (truncating the  floating
> point value rather than rounding it up or down).  Any particular reason why
> DGD has taken this rather non-standard approach?

I have always thought of this the other way.  It is C which is peculiar,
and the rest of the world is normal.

Then again, array indexing would have started at 1 if I had had a say
during that stage of the language's design, so perhaps it is my own
approach with is inherently non-standard.

Regards,
Dworkin

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