using the git branch remotes/origin/1.1.x i.e. user=> (/ 1 -1/2) -2/1 user=> (/ 1 1/2) 2
I asked about this on IRC and was assured that this was the desired behaviour. However after thinking about it I could not really understand what advantage you get by keeping this as a ratio which is not present in the positive case, so i did some digging, and found why it happens. @ line 296 in Numbers.java it checks to see if the denominator is 1, and if so just returns the numerator. Is it really too much work to also check if the denominator is -1 thus allowing you to simply return the negative of the numerator? Here is the patch I wrote which fixes this problem: http://gist.github.com/312146 Of course there may be a better solution, but i'll leave this up to the people who know what they're doing :) if you think this is not worth changing, can you suggest a way to avoid these types of problem? the only thing i can think of is to multiply every value i have by 1 (which removes the lingering denominator) before displaying the result to the user. sure i could just leave things like this, since the values are technically correct, but when a user sees values like 0/1 they might question what the hell is going on (just like i did!). cheers .Tristan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
