On 12/24/13 10:56 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 at 17:10:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 12/24/13 5:09 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On 24/12/13 13:58, monarch_dodra wrote:
I think you are missing the point of what happens if the step is not 1
(or if
the passed in type can have fractional input). EG:
iota(0, 105, 10);
or
iota(0, 10.5);
In this case, "back" should be 100, and not 95. To compute back, you
need to be
able to evaluate length, and to add length*inc to front.
Oh, snap. Have we been working on the same problems for too long? :-)
The integral cases are easy. We need to crack the floating point case:
given numbers low, up, and step, what's the closest number smaller
than up that's reached by repeated adds of step to low?
Andrei
Doesn't think work, or am I missing something?
low + floor( (up-low)/step ) * step
I doubt it's anything as simple as that. The magnitudes of up, low, and
step must be taken into account.
Andrei