> On 22 May 2017, at 14:18, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What are the "subtle bugs all over the place" that you observe, and what did 
> those users expect to happen?

They pretty much universally expect the value to be rounded. When this happens, 
I tell them about this language called C (… insert long story here ...) and we 
replace "Int(foo)" with "foo.rounded()”. We write a unit test and move on. So 
far, so good. However, two weeks later, they do it again. And again. If the 
initializer said “truncating” or something along those lines, I’m sure they 
wouldn’t pick that one. They are all smart people, it’s just that there’s 
absolutely no “visible clue” and they don’t expect this to be the default 
behavior.

P.S. I haven’t followed the “integer protocols” debate and had no idea that 
“this issue is settled” and that it "cannot go back”. Also, I have no time nor 
interest to "bikeshed endlessly”. I just wanted to share real-world 
experience/observation with smart people in here (like you) to improve the 
language going forward.

Thank you!

R+

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