Did something change with ceil on Julia 0.3.6?

[IainNZ]

PackageEvaluator has been dead for a while, so I'm not sure if this is a false alarm. I've noticed a couple of packages failing due to things related to ceil:

• ERROR:ceilhas no method matching ceil(::Type{Integer}, ::Float64) (http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=SortingAlgorithms&ver=release)
• ``iceil has no method matching iceil(::Type{Integer}, ::Array{Float64,2}) (http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=FunctionalData&ver=release)

Any reason to be worried?

[jiahao]

Looks like ceil(Int, 3.8) works on release-0.3 but not 0.3.6 doesn't work on 0.3 (forgot I had Compat.jl precompiled).

iceil is deprecated in 0.4 but I don't think that method signature was ever defined in base.

[tknopp]

julia> iceil(3.8)
4

(julia 3.4). I wonder why iceil and more importantly ifloor should be deprecated. Do they hurt?

[simonster]

ceil(Int, x) was added and iceil(x) was deprecated in #9133. ceil(Int, x) for Julia 0.3 is implemented in Compat. (It doesn't work for me on either 0.3.6 or release-0.3 without Compat loaded.)

As far as I can tell, nothing changed in Julia 0.3.6. Rather, there was a new release of SortingAlgorithms that looks like it needs to use Compat, and the FunctionalData issue should be resolved by JuliaLang/Compat.jl#45.

[IainNZ]

Sounds good, thats what I thought it might be but wanted to be sure