Re: [Oorexx-devel] Various numeric types and the APIs

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

In poking around, I discovered that the RexxGTK code makes pretty extensive
use of float because the underlying toolkit use float.  That's certainly a
good reason to keep that support there.

Rick

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Mark Miesfeld <mie...@gm...> wrote:

> Rick,
>
> I'll take some time to digest this and probably come back later.  But,
> since you did such a nice job of summarizing the open questions, there
> are a few that I have a first reaction to.
>
> > 1)  Is it complete?  I can't think of any others that might need to be
> added.
>
> undecided.
>
> > 2)  Should we rename ObjectToNumber()/ObjectToUnsigned() number?
>
> I think so, not sure of the names though.  I like
> ObjectToWholeNumber(), but don't know about the unsigned name.
>
> > 3)  Should we drop float?
>
> I think so.
>
> > 4)  Should we add ObjectToLogical()?
>
> Yes, I'm all for that.
>
> > 5)  For the architecture variant types, are conversion routines for
> > the *intptr_t types the ones we want, or should it be
> > size_t/ssize_t....or maybe both.
>
> Maybe both, need to think about it some.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
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