[PD] In search for Perlin Noise and seomthing to round numbers.

[s.koepf]

Hello,

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> 
>> [expr floor($f1,0)]
>> [expr ceil($f1,0)]
>> Which reminds me to ask, does anyone know why expr's floor and ceil
>> require two arguments,
> 

it is No 1464539 in the bug-tracker.

> Because of a typo that Orm Finnendahl made in 2002.
> 
>> and would it make sense to allow floor and ceil to work with a single 
>> argument only?
> 
> Yes, but it wouldn't be backwards-compatible, unless [expr] allows 
> optional arguments, but there's no way to specify that in [expr]'s 
> function table.
> 

Do you really think, we should keep this (bug) for backwards compatibility?
BTW, Orm told me once, that it wasn't he who wrote this code.

Siegfried