Cromwell Enage wrote:
--- David Abrahams wrote:
integer_part is common usage. It doesn't matter if you don't think it's descriptive; everyone will understand it...
Okay, if everyone understands it, then that's what I'll use.
unless of course you mean something different from what everybody means by "integer part."
I was thinking that integer_part included the sign and whole_part didn't.
That's a little scary; integer_part, and fractional_part ... are ideal names, BUT I would expect that both integer and fractional _parts *included* the sign - and I tend to think anything else would inevitably lead to confusion. There of course are complementary calls like `abs` and `sign` which should assuage all. Cheers, -- Manfred Doudar MetOcean Engineers www.metoceanengineers.com