Design Question: Scalars

[mllg]

Design Question: Scalars

[berndbischl]

Acutally forget about "inconsisent design".

Simply this should be addressed:

• Bounds must be checkable for numbers / ints
• We need a scalar integerish, which is not a count.
• complex scalar is missing (?) (I dont care about this)

[mllg]

We need a scalar integerish, which is not a count.

Suggestions for a short name?

[berndbischl]

It's hard, because "assertInteger" means the vector.

We can talk about this in person, if you want. Problem might be that there is no "shorthand signifier" in the name that expresses "vector" or "scalar." And I am really not sure what is best.

Nevertheless how do you like this:

• assertLong
• assertWord
• assertDWord
• assertDoubleWord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_(computer_science)

Each of these names is suboptimal for a different reason though, I just dont know anything else...
Also it does not express "integerish...."

Let's talk, I can really not express what I what to say in writing here.