On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Andreas Lundblad <andreas.lundb...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 05:43:26PM -0800, Joseph D. Darcy wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Getting back to this issue in the new year, taking a closer look at >> the existing class-level documentation, I don't really see a >> compelling case for an edit this large. >> >> I for one would be content if the bug were closed as "not an issue." >> >> HTH, >> >> -Joe > > > I originally brought this up when I was trying to create a > Comparator<Number>. In my use case I was fine with rounding and truncation, > so I thougth I could safely use longValue. I was then surprised when I > discovered that the method could basically return arbitrary long values. With this in mind, perhaps simply an additional sentence in the class-level documentation would be in order, so to speak (insert as penultimate sentence): “In particular, conversions may not preserve the mathematical ordering of the numeric values represented by Number instances." Brian
