Re: int / int ?

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From: Will Rose
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 00:00

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Tom Burke (tomii@erols.com) wrote:
: I have a question about the following statement:

:                cxCaps = (tm.tmPitchAndFamily & 1 ? 3 : 2) * cxChar / 2 ;

: Now, this is easy enough to understand what it's _supposed_ to do,
: which is look at the last bit of tm.tmPitchAndFamily.  If the bit is a
: '1', then 3 is used, if the bit is '0', then 2 is used.  The used number
: is then multiplied by cxChar and then it is all divided by 2.  This
: is to determine whether or not a true type font is used, and if so,
: to multipy the average width of capital letters by 150% (1.5).

The operations * and / are both left-associative, so 5 * 3 / 2 comes
to 7, and 5 / 2 * 3 comes to 6.


Will

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Subject: Re: int / int ?
Date: 1998/11/29
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