[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Percentage Type

[Jonathan Hull]

If you look at the implementation I provided, it allows for percentages higher than 100% (and has an easy way to clip them or map them to an arbitrary range).


> On Jan 16, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Dave DeLong via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 16, 2018, at 9:56 AM, Jon Gilbert via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> No to this pitch, because a percentage can be higher than 100%.
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> ☝️ One need only look in Activity Monitor to see this in action.
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>> Use NumberFormatter to display a number as a percentage. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/numberformatter <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/numberformatter>
> I agree 1000% 😉 
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>> Or you could make an NSNumber subclass if you want to enforce an arbitrary rule upon numbers.
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> In theory you can; in practice you can’t. Subclassing things like NSNumber is fraught with undocumented peril.
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> Dave
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