31 Oct
2005
31 Oct
'05
4:51 p.m.
Cromwell Enage <sponage@yahoo.com> writes:
--- Daryle Walker wrote:
Is BOOST_MPL_MATH_RATIONAL_PART_OF_RATIONAL a re-statement of the rational number itself?
No.
Or is it supposed to be the remainder after taking out the "whole" part?
Yes.
If the latter, then the name should have "FRACTIONAL" replacing the first "RATIONAL", since "fractional" and not "rational" better describes a left-over bit.
For consistency this part of the macro name is lexically the same as the template name whose specialization the macro creates, i.e. rational_part.
Both names seems misleading to me. What's wrong with BOOST_MPL_MATH_RATIONAL_FRACTIONAL_PART fractional_part ?? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com