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RE: Confused about floats
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RE: Confused about floats


  • Subject: RE: Confused about floats
  • From: Shawn Bakhtiar <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:32:08 -0400
  • Importance: Normal


:*S

Yes... I see the point. Correct.

For a constant value this is true, in the instance of x = x + 1 (which I see where the error was), where x is a float this makes no difference.

However, for clarity of the OP, x = x + y where y is an int, should be typecast correctly as x = x + (float)y

Personally when I am writing code, I always write as x = x + 1.0 for clarity as well.

Sorry for not understanding the rebuttal :*)


> Subject: Re: Confused about floats
> From: email@hidden
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:24:13 -0600
> CC: email@hidden
> To: email@hidden
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Scott Ribe
> email@hidden
> http://www.elevated-dev.com/
> (303) 722-0567 voice
>
>
>
>
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