From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in `string-to-number'
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:19:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zle6fatk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0904240445s26881610sf371ff3f7fbdc43c@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:45:50 +0200
> Cc: herring@lanl.gov, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Obviously, any such change should be done post 23.1; there's almost
> 1,000 uses of `string-to-number' in lisp/*.el. It's hard to know how
> many of them assume that "1:" will be interpreted as "1".
Which is why I thing we should fix it the other way around: to
recognize "1.2:" as a number. That cannot possibly break anything, so
it should be safe to do before the release, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 0:16 Inconsistency in `string-to-number' Davis Herring
2009-04-24 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-24 11:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-24 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-04-24 14:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-24 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-24 13:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-04-24 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-24 14:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-05 0:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-12-01 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 3:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-12-04 3:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-12-04 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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