Arrays should be indexable by a float!!!!!

wouldnt that just be a dictionary? 🤓

Hmm... Do you want all 512 different zeros refer to the same slot? Assuming a 32 bit float with sign bit and 8 bit mantissa.

I bet you can monkeypatch the Array constructor in JS to make it do just that

@kiki

Easier in C.

double x = 4.32134;

return array[(long) x];

I mean, it is not contiguous, but it does allow you to use double values to address different values. 2^(how many fucking bits a double on your machine has). Assuming here, bits in double = bits in long.

Doesn’t js do this already? Because in js there are no integers but only floats.

Funny how when you want to make a joke about something ridiculous and in js it‘s already reality.

Feels like a recipe for an erratically behaving system

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@Lensflare sorry, but JS has a mechanism by telling the two apart: Number.isInteger()

I know you think that static types are “better”, but that's as good as you're gonna get in a language like JS.

Also, parseInt and parseFloat are different.

@TrayKnots holy fuck, you're right

Me: "Hey, I'd like the page 0.7557274284 in that book, please."

Array: *hands me a loaded gun*
"Kill yourself"

@TrayKnots Wouldn't that just truncate?

array[*((long*)(&x))]

@donkulator

I wouldn't see why. I don't need to dereference it when it is already on the stack. I just need to cast it.

On the other hand, I am no C developer and I didn't try it. All I am saying, cast the double to a long. Interpret this region in memory as a long.

You might be right, we can use your code for our double accepting array code.

@kiki but you can still pass a float as an index. How exactly does the ability to tell them apart make this not retarded?

@Lensflare just don't do that

Thinking about it, we can apply the factorial function to complex numbers, take the log of a negative number, and differentiate a function two and a half times.

Looking up the (1.2+3.4i)th element of an array is perfectly sane by comparison.

Just make sure it still starts from zero or we'll have your genitalia for a door knocker.

@TrayKnots

A C cast done that way just truncates the float.

As @donkulator said, you need to cast and dereference a pointer in order to reinterpret the bits.

@donkulator no, this is more comparable to number theory. It‘s like asking what the 2.65th prime number is.

Some things just don‘t make sense with non-integers, no matter how hard you try :)

@Lensflare That's why I never really liked number theory.