All:

I've had a problem with Point>>#r:degrees:, which calls the instance 
method #setR:degress:, which truncates the x and y values it computes:

    setR: rho degrees: theta

	| radians |
	radians _ theta asFloat degreesToRadians.
	x _ (rho asFloat * radians cos) asInteger.
	y _ (rho asFloat * radians sin) asInteger.

Other point creation methods do not truncate (or round) values to integers.

The truncation causes the point to get 'smaller'. I was repeatedly 
using #r:degrees: on points in a closed curve and the curve rapidly 
shrunk down to nothing. Nice visual effect, but not what I wanted.

I suggest that the asInteger be removed from the method and that any 
callers (there are 8-10 of them through Point>>#r:degrees:) be fixed 
to truncate their arguments if that is the right thing to do.

An alternative is to use #rounded, but I have no idea what effect 
that would have on my code or the other calls.

Any comments before I go make the changes? I'm currently using a copy 
of #setR:degrees without the #asInteger and it works fine for my 
application.

Dave
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David N. Smith
IBM T J Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY
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