[RFC] We need an ENTIER that does ceil, CENTIER?

[jpl]

Hautier ?  (French for "high")



On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Hello people!
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> Bruno Haible pointed out recently, "if you are using floor() with IEEE
> floating point, you most certainly will need ceil() as well".
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> Thing is, we have the ENTIER standard operator in Algol 68, that does
> floor().
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> We need to come out with some name for a similar operator that does
> ceil().  Something like CENTIER?
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> Ideas?
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> PS: Bruno's theory on why ceil() wasn't a thing back then is that they
>     used a FP representation that didn't include minus zero.