Re: [5.3] Converting a floating point number to integer.

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

> On Nov 16, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2014-11-16 21:26 GMT+02:00 Ico <lua@zevv.nl>:
>> * On 2014-11-16 20:01:03 +0100, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>> 
>>> The user must decide what is correct for his application: floor, ceil,
>>> closest (coded e.g. as floor(x+0.5)), truncate (as you suggest)
>> 
>> What would be the idiomatic way to truncate a float to int in Lua 5.3?
> 
> function truncate(x)
>   return x<0 and math.ceil(x) or math.floor(x)
> end
> 

Looking into my (foggy) crystal ball, I predict that questions about converting float to int will be THE most asked when 5.3 ships.

—Tim