Re: distanceto semantics

argh, this is backwards.  please log a bug

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> Currently b1.distanceto(b2) gives the answer b1 - b2.
>
> Shouldn't that be b2 - b1?
>
> Ascii example:
>
> .-----.
> |b1   |           b1 origin  (0,  0)
> |  .-----.        b2 origin (50, 50)
> '--|b2   |
>    |     |
>    '-----'
>
> Currently b1.distanceto(b2) returns {x:-50, y:-50}.  But wouldn't you
> expect that to be (50,50)?
>
> To me, 'b1.distanceto(b2)' reads "the distance from b1 to b2".
> Currently it returns "the distance from b2 to b1".
> -- 
> - Charlie
>
> Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
> Online @ www.charlietech.com
>
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