yes, agreed, just pushing to the extrema. On Thursday, 9 July 2020 01:32:13 UTC+1, keith....@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 4:50:30 PM UTC-7, simon place wrote: >> >> wait a minute, so this... https://play.golang.org/p/x5SQVgSJsIs >> >> could return anything! >> >> > I think float -0 should be guaranteed to convert to integer 0. > Just like -0.25 and 0.25. The spec says "fraction discarded" but I > interpret that as throwing away the - in front of the zero (being an > infinitesimal negative fraction). > > Only if *after* rounding towards zero, if the value doesn't fit then the > result is implementation dependent. > > >> On Wednesday, 8 July 2020 19:57:30 UTC+1, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> >>> The spec is not particularly helpful, but it is not entirely silent. >>> It says: "In all non-constant conversions involving floating-point or >>> complex values, if the result type cannot represent the value the >>> conversion succeeds but the result value is implementation-dependent." >>> >>> Ian >>> >>
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