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From: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: number->string of float with radix
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:55:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210141055.DAA10691@cmn14.stanford.edu> (raw)

guile> (number->string 5 2.0)
standard input:1:1: In procedure number->string in expression (number->string 5 2.0):
standard input:1:1: Wrong type argument in position 2 (expecting INUMP): 2.0
ABORT: (wrong-type-arg)

"INUMP" is internal jargon -- "integer" or "exact integer" would be better.


Also, I wonder about these kinds of calls:

guile> (number->string 10.5 2)
"10.5"

It's actually not senseless to have base-2 float notation ("1010.1", "a.8" hex),
but if Guile just returns base 10, maybe it should warn the caller?  Otherwise,
for example, string->number does not invert number->string:

guile> (string->number "10.5" 2)
#f


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-14 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 10:55 Bill Schottstaedt [this message]
2002-10-18 21:53 ` number->string of float with radix Marius Vollmer
2002-10-20 10:44   ` Bill Schottstaedt
2002-10-20 21:41     ` Marius Vollmer

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