Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSPoint/NSMakePoint oddness

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 2 Jun, 2009, at 20:44, Daniel Ashbrook wrote:

> Is this expected behavior?
>
>>>> from Foundation import *
>>>> NSMakePoint(100000100, 0)
> <NSPoint x=100000096.0 y=0.0>
>
> Shouldn't I get out what I put in?

Yes, but you're running into a limitation of the platform. The field  
of an NSPoint structure are C floats and a float cannot accurately  
represent the value 100000100, that's why you get a slighty different  
one.

Ronald