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 >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e3d22561-b2ea-43a6-98f6-6840d0e878e3o%40googlegroups.com.
