Fw: [Mono-list] bug found! :-)

[Gaurav Vaish]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaurav Vaish" <gvaish@adobe.com>
To: "Maurizio Colucci" <seguso.forever@tin.it>; <mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 14:15
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] bug found! :-)


> See section 7.2.6 of C# Language Specs (Numeric Promotions).
>
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>     Numeric promotion consists of automatically performing certain
implicit
> conversions of the operands of the predefined unary and binary numeric
> operators. Numeric promotion is not a distinct mechanism, but rather an
> effect of applying overload resolution to the predefined operators.
Numeric
> promotion specifically does not affect evaluation of user-defined
operators,
> although user-defined operators can be implemented to exhibit similar
> effects.
>
>     As an example of numeric promotion, consider the predefined
> implementations of the binary * operator:
>
> int operator *(int x, int y);
> uint operator *(uint x, uint y);
> long operator *(long x, long y);
> ulong operator *(ulong x, ulong y);
> float operator *(float x, float y);
> double operator *(double x, double y);
> decimal operator *(decimal x, decimal y);
>
>     When overload resolution rules (Section 7.4.2) are applied to this set
> of operators, the effect is to select the first of the operators for which
> implicit conversions exist from the operand types. For example, for the
> operation b * s, where b is a byte and s is a short, overload resolution
> selects operator *(int, int) as the best operator. Thus, the effect is
that
> b and s are converted to int, and the type of the result is int. Likewise,
> for the operation i * d, where i is an int and d is a double, overload
> resolution selects operator *(double, double) as the best operator.
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>
>
> Cheers,
> Gaurav
> http://gvaish.virtualave.net
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>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Maurizio Colucci" <seguso.forever@tin.it>
> To: <mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 14:00
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] bug found! :-)
>
>
> > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 05:36, Rohit wrote:
> > > thats not a bug!
> > > cause
> > >
> > > 4/3 = 1.3333333333333333333333333333333 != integer.
> >
> > Then why does this remove the error?
> >
> > int o = i/(int)u
> >
> > ?
>