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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Simple if-exercises |
| Date | 2015-04-03 16:07 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 4/3/2015 3:31 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>[...]
> But in any case using Math.signum() looks kind of messy by the time
> you've called the static function and then coerced its result to integer:
>
> switch((int)Math.signum(n))
> {
> case -1:
> case 0: s = "Negative-or-equal"; break;
> case +1: s = "Positive"; break;
> default: s = "Defaulted";
> }
Note that the "default:" case will never execute.
Math.signum(n) can return Double.NaN (or Float.NaN, depending
on the type of "n"), but converting a NaN to int yields zero.
JLS 5.1.3.
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Re: Simple if-exercises v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2015-04-03 06:29 +0000
Re: Simple if-exercises Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-03 10:29 +0000
Re: Simple if-exercises v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2015-04-03 18:05 +0000
Re: Simple if-exercises Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-03 19:31 +0000
Re: Simple if-exercises Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-04-03 16:07 -0400
Re: Simple if-exercises Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-03 21:45 +0000
Re: Simple if-exercises v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2015-04-03 23:49 +0000
Re: Simple if-exercises Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-04-03 07:38 -0400
Re: Simple if-exercises Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-03 20:06 -0400
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