[erlang-questions] Floor Function?

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 14 Mar 2009, at 7:17 am, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> int_ceil(X) ->
>    T = trunc(X),
>    case (X - T) of
>        Neg when Neg < 0 -> T;
>        Pos when Pos > 0 -> T + 1;
>        _ -> T
>    end.

Why isn't this

int_ceil(X) ->
     T = trunc(X),
     if X > T -> T + 1
      ; true  -> T
     end.

int_floor(X) ->
     T = trunc(X),
     if X < T -> T - 1
      ; true  -> T
     end.

There doesn't seem to be any reason to compute X-T.