Re: Math.roundUp(), an alias for Math.ceil()

[Sebastian Malton]

It also isn't the just the C language, those are the terms for rounding in mathematics which is why they are used. Sebastian Malton From: robjt...@icloud.com Sent: August 4, 2018 7:04 PM To: eric.andrew.le...@gmail.com Cc: es-discuss@mozilla.org Subject: Re: Math.roundUp(), an alias for Math.ceil() Hi Eric, From my experience, folks don’t like adding things to the spec that are very easily implemented (like aliases) in userland. All you’d need is a `Math.roundUp = Math.ceil` to start using the code you want. Regards, Rob On 4 Aug 2018, at 23:55, Eric Andrew Lewis <eric.andrew.le...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi there, this is my first message to the list. Thanks for all that you do to improve  the programming language for the web! This is probably a curious proposal that will go nowhere but I thought it'd be interesting to share a suggestion and see how it goes. I teach introductory _javascript_. Students have a hard time remembering the method name Math.ceil(). It looks like the name "ceil" dates back to at least the C programming language, and probably earlier. I suggest introducing Math.roundUp() as an alias for Math.ceil() to provide an easier to read and remember method name. If this makes sense, introducing Math.roundDown() might be a good alias for Math.floor() as well. I searched for previous discussions on creating method name aliases and couldn't find one to see how the committee has made decisions about them in the past. Thanks, -- Eric Lewis ericandrewlewis.com

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