[boost] [MPL.Math] rational_part or fractional_part?

From: Cromwell Enage (sponage_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-31 08:21:34

--- Daryle Walker wrote:
> Is BOOST_MPL_MATH_RATIONAL_PART_OF_RATIONAL a
> re-statement of the rational number itself?

No.

> Or is it supposed to be the remainder after taking
> out the "whole" part?

Yes.

> If the latter, then the name should have
"FRACTIONAL"
> replacing the first "RATIONAL", since "fractional"
> and not "rational" better describes a left-over bit.

For consistency this part of the macro name is
lexically the same as the template name whose
specialization the macro creates, i.e. rational_part.

> (Rational numbers are a generalization of fractions
> that include values with absolute values greater
than
> one, i.e. a numerator larger than its denominator
[in
> absolute value].)

I have no qualms about changing the name, as long as
all interested parties agree.  Andy Little?

                              Cromwell D. Enage

        
                
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