[RFC] CEIL, FLOOR, ROUND returning REAL

[chris hermansen]

Comments below...

On Sun, May 17, 2026, 22:07 Pietro Monteiro <pietro@sociotechnical.xyz>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2026, at 12:39 AM, chris hermansen wrote:
> > Piero and everyone,
> >
> > On Sun, May 17, 2026, 21:27 Pietro Monteiro <pietro@sociotechnical.xyz>
> wrote:
> >> While working on implementing CEIL I realized that CEIL, FLOOR, ROUND
> >> return an integer of same SIZETY as the real operand. I fortunately
> >> don't much involving floating point math, but I think that returning a
> >> real of same SIZETY as the operand might be usefull. What do y'all
> >> think?
> >
> > I think the length of the result should be the same as that of the
> operand.
> >
> > But I'm not sure I'm following you completely; ENTIER returns an INT,
> > LONG INT OR LONG LONG INT, not reals. But your subject line suggests
> > you plan to return real results from CEIL, FLOOR, ROUND?
>
> I was trying to propose adding CEIL, FLOOR/ENTIER and ROUND that would
> return
> a real of the same length of the operand in addition to the ones that
> return an integer.
>

I guess they would have to have distinguishing names? Like RCEIL etc?

I could be wrong but declaring two operators with the same name both taking
a real argument, one returning INT, the other returning real... How would
the compiler decide which one is being called since INT can be widened to
real when a real value is required?
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