nttlTraits Method - Abs

Description

Return the absolute value of a number.

This is just a convienience function.  It is implemented in terms of the unary minus operator.  The function may need to be specialized if the type T does not implement the unary minus operator.

Signature

template<class T> T nttlTraits::Abs( const T& x )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
x	T	The number to take the absolute value of.

Returns

( T )  The absolute value of x, as described above.

Example

#include <nttl/nttlTraits.h> ... nttlTraits<int> tr; ... int x = -10; int a = tr.Abs( x );