Hi
On 6/3/24 19:02, Jordan LeDoux wrote:
If the behavior of that mode is to ALWAYS round regardless of the value of
the remainder, then it should remain ceil IMO. It's a pretty well
understood behavior in many programming languages. However,
"HALF_TOWARDS_POSITIVE_INFINITY" is a different behavior, and should not be
called ceil.
There's already HalfAwayFromZero + AwayFromZero as companion modes. It would make sense to me to also make it PositiveInfinity + HalfPositiveInfinity [1] instead of Ceil + HalfPositiveInfinity, which are appear to be unrelated based on their naming.
That would make it clear that those two are closely related and also that all the modes starting with 'Half' would be the ones that are only relevant if the last digit is 5, whereas the others act unconditionally.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
[1] Possibly with an 'Towards' inserted before the Negative/Positive.