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Re: Confused about floats


  • Subject: Re: Confused about floats
  • From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:24:13 -0600

On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote:

> Did you just call typecasting  "*completely* unnecessary and pointless"...

No, I called typecasting an int type to a floating type, in order to add it to a floating type, unnecessary and pointless.

> You may be correct in that in Objective-C this may no longer be an issue, as the compiler does your work for you, but that was not an assumption I was making.

It's got nothing to do with Objective-C; C has always taken care of that case. What exactly do you think is wrong with x = x + 100 where x is a double?

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