Re: ?floor ?round ?ceiling in 2.3 and 2.4 now: [WAS Re: weird macro params issue]

For a measure of just how much IT lingo tolerates ridiculous  
abbreviations, consider creat()... 'nuff said.

Attila.

On 2008.05.03., at 19:58, Daniel Dekany wrote:

> Saturday, May 3, 2008, 5:11:43 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote:
>
>> On 2008.05.03., at 4:16, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder why is this called ?ceiling instead of ?ceil, when the  
>>> other
>>> one is ?floor, not ?flooring.
>>
>> You were joking here, weren't you?
>
> Well... let's say that the reasoning went a "bit" confused at the end
> (thanks to my limited English skills), but the that I tried to say is
> that in the Java we have Math.ceil/Math.floor (not Math.ceiling). So I
> indeed wondered if which is the better (ceil or ceiling). But yes,
> true, ceiling is a noun like floor is, while ceil is a verb... So
> unless ceil is prevalent in the IT lingo, ceiling will be good.
>
>> Attila.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Daniel Dekany




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