On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:12:32PM -0600, Mike Berry wrote: > > Devils' advocate: round or use floor() or something faster (for x86 there is > > a fast cast lib that works well) . If you use floats to represent ints, you > > don't need to be exact. > > If we eliminate ints as a possible data type, as suggested, then > everyone has no choice but to use floats and incur the problems they entail. What problems? -- Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use, suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books. Cause and effect, or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe