From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: (number? '1e311) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:48:20 +0100 Message-ID: <878wrfwfob.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20081101142047.M70127@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227131426 18294 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2008 21:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:26 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 22:51:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2uxG-0001eJ-1A for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:51:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2uw7-0004n3-Cc for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2uw3-0004mk-Sq for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2uw2-0004m7-6y for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59849 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2uw1-0004m4-W3 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55404 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2uw1-0005hf-N5 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2uvy-0003Hc-LT for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 29 Brumaire an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jU2hEjhYNgqcNoPf2kYSSYXRyWg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:4115 Archived-At: Hi, Sorry for the late reply. "Bill Schottstaedt" writes: > I think number? should not signal an error -- it should > return either #t or #f: > > guile> (number? '1e310) > ERROR: In procedure string->number: > ERROR: Value out of range: 310 > ABORT: (out-of-range) > guile> ERROR: In procedure scm_read_expression: > ERROR: standard input:1:17: unexpected ")" > ABORT: (read-error) The error is not raised by `number?', it's raised by the reader, which uses `string->number' internally. Thanks, Ludo'.