Re: improving empty handling in tools::Rectangle

> On 9 May 2019, at 6:23 am, Thorsten Behrens <thb@libreoffice.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Noel, *,
>
> Noel Grandin wrote:
> > What I'm doing here is making its behaviour in the empty case more reasonable,
> > and adding asserts that will flush out some of the existing dodgy code.
> Yep, on balance I think that's beneficial.
>
> > I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I'm not aware of any mechanical
> > fixes.
> Right, and I'm afraid those would obfuscate things even more.
>
> The plan back in the day was to either use float ranges (where - for
> graphics - this half vs. closed interval question usually becomes
> moot), or B2IBox and B2IRange respectively. And then gradually move
> code over to use basegfx & drawinglayer.
>
> From how I see this, that change is best done manual.

Can we file an easy hack to manually start changing to either half or closed intervals (whatever 
basegfx does)?

Chris 

> Cheers,
>
> -- Thorsten