[GRASS-dev] Overflow warning in r.mapcalc calculation

[Paulo van Breugel]

Hi Glynn and Rainer

Happy to see this exchange of ideas. It would be great if this could be
implemented. Do you think it is useful I make a feature request on the bug
tracker (with link to this email thread) so the idea doesn't get lost?




On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>wrote:

>
> Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>
> > > One option is to modify round() to take a second argument (defaulting
> > > to 1), and have it return the first argument rounded to the nearest
> > > multiple of the second. The return type would be that of the second
> > > argument, i.e. round(x,1) rounds to the nearest integer and returns an
> > > integer, round(x,1.0) rounds to the nearest integer and returns a
> > > float, round(x,1e-3) would round to 3 decimal places (i.e. the nearest
> > > multiple of 0.001), etc.
> >
> > Sounds like a sensible approach without adding to many new
> > functions. But I would actually split the two, i.e. have two more
> > arguments, where one specifies the type,
> > and the other one the number of decimals to round to, i.e.
> >
> > round(x, 0, "I") would be the default, rounding to whole number and
> > return an integer
>
> That interface isn't possible. r.mapcalc doesn't have a string type,
> and there's no way that a function's return type can depend upon the
> value of a parameter.
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> _______________________________________________
> grass-dev mailing list
> grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/attachments/20130517/78129446/attachment.html>