From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in `string-to-number'
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:38:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0904240638k7841310eoc952f795581b448e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvljpqyyop.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:22, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> Except that it will break existing code.
<sigh> I know, as I explicitly acknowledged that fact in my message...
Also, it was Eli who suggested it.
Still, that code relies in undocumented behavior. As the "1:" vs.
"1.2:" vs. "1.2" difference demonstrates, it's just luck that it
works.
One way or the other, the docstring should be fixed.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 13:38 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
2009-04-24 13:38 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
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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