[chuck-users] Integer divisions

[Stefan Blixt]

I don't know... isn't this how most of the curly bracket languages work?
Might as well keep ChucK in line with the other languages. Btw, shouldn't it
be the same as this:

[Interval.r(1), Interval.r(1), Interval.r(1), Interval.r(1)]

/Stefan

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Hans Aberg <haberg at math.su.se> wrote:

> I find the integer divisions C rule is problematic when working with
> intervals. Suppose I have [8/7, 7/6, 7/6, 8/7] and implement it as
>  [Interval.r(8/7), Interval.r(7/6), Interval.r(7/6), Interval.r(8/7)]
> Then this is the same as:
>  [Interval.r(0), Interval.r(0), Interval.r(0), Interval.r(0)]
> One has to add ".0" one of the numerator/denominator:
>  [Interval.r(8.0/7), Interval.r(7.0/6), Interval.r(7.0/6),
> Interval.r(8.0/7)],
>
> One possible rule might be converting 32-bit int to 64-bit floats, and then
> only back to int when needed. The question if it then affects some ChucK
> legacy code.
>
>  Hans
>
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