From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in `string-to-number'
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:22:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljpqyyop.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0904240445s26881610sf371ff3f7fbdc43c@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:45:50 +0200")
>> Looks like a bug to me. Either (string-to-number "1:") should return
>> zero, as if the string was not a number at all
> That, and clarifying the docstring, would be the most sensible solution.
Except that it will break existing code.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 13:22 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
2009-04-24 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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