Thanks for the raising the question on the blog and the comments.
I see support based only on general principles and not from use cases
where the function would be essential. At this point, we're not trying to
provide a complete set of exact arithmetic functions but to cover the cases
where developers can benefit from not having to deal with the tricky
parts themselves.
On 02/13/2012 12:52 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
On 11 February 2012 17:31, Roger Riggs<roger.ri...@oracle.com> wrote:
Updated the webrev for CR6708398:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/6708398.2
- Added a paragraph to the class javadoc for Math and StrictMath to
introduce the exact arithmetic methods and their uses.
- Editorial correction to first sentence of each method to consistent use
"Returns".
- Added Tests for the StrictMath methods (they are the same tests as for
Math)
In case you didn't see it, the question as to what to include was asked here
http://blog.joda.org/2012/02/jdk-helper-math-methods.html
The answers were inconclusive, however I would argue that negate has
enough supporters to justify inclusion.
Stephen
