[DGD]Casting to int

[E. Harte]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Kris Van Hees wrote:

<...>
> However, I consider it (personally) logical to truncate  on
> converting a floating point value to an integer because it does not  involve
> any explicit choice to be made on what rounding technique you use.  There is
> only one way to truncate a floating point value.

To each their own.  If you want the C/Java-like behaviour, do this:

  (int)(float_value - 0.5)    if float_value >= 0
  (int)(float_value + 0.5)    if float_value <  0

Shouldn't be too hard to turn that into a nice #define or function.

> Anyway, this is not an argument to have it changed.  I just wanted  to  know
> what your choice was based on (regardless of whether I agree or not -  which
> is highly irrelevant anyhow).

Indeed. :)

Erwin.
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