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rgovostes Junior Member Offline Posts: 76	always use float May 15th, 2005, 3:52am   It'd be a useful preprocessor feature if you could specify that you always want constants to be interpreted as floats. Just had a bit of a headache before I realized that 3 / 4 is 0 in integer math...

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa

Re: always use float Reply #1 - May 15th, 2005, 4:53pm   hm, can't really be done so well, since it'll screw up things like array indexing. the whole int vs float thing is just one of those things to get used to with programming. it actually comes in useful in a lot of places, for instance, walking through an array and getting coordinates: Code: for (int i = 0; i < pixels.length; i++) { if (pixels[i] == 0xff808000) { int y = i / width; int x = i % width; println("found color at " + x + ", " + y); } }