Does anyone know the reason why Adobe’s docs say

Adobe recommends that you use the Floor function, instead of the Int function, in all new applications.

https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-functions/functions-in-k/int.html ? Is there an actual reason or just that there are two functions doing the same thing?

I think it's just because that BIF name is more consistent

yeah - I get that, especially WRT other programming languages. But that being said most of the time I use the int function it is not because I want to floor a decimal, but rather as a way to assert that the variable is an integer. But I could just be weird like that, not sure if anyone else does that too.

I would bet the person who wrote that had some blinders on in regards to the scenarios they imagined it being used in 🙂

it always returns an integer or throws an exception

Is it because Floor has a hidden val() in it and int doesn't basically making floor(10.5) the same as int(val(10.5)) ?

I didn’t know that @Michael Gillespie that is handy

i think it was historically

fix()

wasn't it

I forgot about fix… is there a difference between fix and int?

i think fix was floor

@foundeo Yeah, I find a zero is easier to handle than a try/catch

FWIW,

floor()

is NOT the same as

int(val())

CFSCRIPT-REPL: int(val('3.5sdf'))
3
CFSCRIPT-REPL: floor('3.5sdf')
ERROR

can't cast [3.5sdf] string to a number value

Well., so much for that idea..lol

I'm not sure what you're trying to show there

Sorry, I use this only when I have to use user provided data - should have included the test for Z

<cfset z=int(val('xx'))>

I thought it had something to do with the treatment of negative numbers, but int & floor produce the same results. fix does differ from those two.