I've been struggling with types in math operations in Groovy. I think there is an error in the documentation?
http://groovy-lang.org/syntax.html#_math_operations It says that int and BigDecimal result in double, but it doesn't, it results in BigDecimal instead. It appears this holds for byte, char, short, and long as well. assert (15.0 + 1).class == BigDecimal Are there other errors in that table? It seems so... because byte + short is a byte and not an int as mentioned in that table: assert ((byte)1 + (short)1).class == Byte I would put in a PR to fix up that doc but I'm not sure I understand how it all works. Normally when I do maths I try to stick all to primitive types or all to BigDecimal types. Today I'm trying to make sure I don't accidentally go from BigDecimals to float/double. Jason Winnebeck Software Engineer III Contractor - IT Software Development | Windstream 600 Willowbrook Office Park, Rochester, NY 14450 jason.winneb...@windstream.com<mailto:jason.winneb...@windstream.com> | windstreambusiness.com o: 585.794-4585 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments.
