From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in `string-to-number'
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0904240713w3685015bk2dcc24ae40b3120c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zle6fatk.fsf@gnu.org>
> 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.
It's a long shot, but there could conceivably be code that relies in
truncation of "float + non-space", i.e., that expects ("1.2:" => 1).
So it's not true that it cannot possibly break anything; just
unlikely.
Yes, code that relies on "1.2:" => 1 is abusing a non-documented
quirk; but code that relies on "1:" => 1 is also doing the same thing.
(That said, I'm not going to push for one behavior over the other.)
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 14:13 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
2009-04-24 14:13 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
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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