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Re: Comparison structure?

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Comparison structure?
Date 2016-10-05 08:08 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 10/4/2016 10:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>[...]
>         private int compareMe;
>         private int compareTo;
> [...]
>             switch(Integer.signum(compareMe - compareTo)) {

     Bad Arne!  B-A-A-D Arne!  Wear this dunce cap and sit in the corner!

     (Hint: Why do "sign-of-difference" and "comparison" sometimes
give different answers?)

     (Hint #2: compareMe = -100000, compareTo = 0x7fffffff)

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Comparison structure? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 07:25 -0700
  Re: Comparison structure? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-10-04 10:46 -0400
  Re: Comparison structure? Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0700
    Re: Comparison structure? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 10:29 -0700
      Re: Comparison structure? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-10-04 15:35 -0400
        Re: Comparison structure? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-10-04 20:16 -0400
          Re: Comparison structure? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-10-04 22:29 -0400
            Re: Comparison structure? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-10-05 08:08 -0400
              Re: Comparison structure? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-10-05 20:27 -0400
  Re: Comparison structure? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-10-04 17:37 +0000
    Re: Comparison structure? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 12:02 -0700
    Re: Comparison structure? j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-10-05 17:12 +0200
      Re: Comparison structure? j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2016-10-05 17:14 +0200
  Re: Comparison structure? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-10-04 20:03 -0400
  Re: Comparison structure? Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2016-10-05 22:41 +0200

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