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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: Text collation
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:02:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87psb26jng.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fyc1df70.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:08:03 +1100")

I wrote:
>
>> +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} locale-string->integer str [base [locale]]
>> +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} locale-string->inexact str [locale]
>
> I think you should cross-reference strtol and strtod here, since their
> parsing is rather idiosyncratic.  I'd even be a bit tempted to name
> them strtol and strtod in guile, to make it clear they're only one
> possible way of parsing.  Except those names aren't very nice ...

I'm now sure these should be called strtol and probably strtod,
because they're actually pretty awful functions.  The syntax they
recognise is C style, and the error return for overflow is not too
friendly.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-02 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19  9:23 Text collation Ludovic Courtès
2006-09-19 22:38 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-10-22 18:33   ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-10-23  2:01     ` Rob Browning
2006-10-23  7:56       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-10-24  8:37         ` Rob Browning
2006-10-25  8:16           ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-10-25  8:46             ` Rob Browning
2006-10-25 18:40               ` Neil Jerram
2006-10-25 19:55                 ` Rob Browning
2006-10-26  8:47                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-09  7:44                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-09 17:43                     ` Rob Browning
2006-11-10 13:39                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-11 15:17                         ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-20 13:24                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-21 22:03                           ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-22 13:38                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-10-25 18:43           ` Neil Jerram
2006-10-25 19:31             ` Rob Browning
2006-10-25 18:33     ` Neil Jerram
2006-10-26  8:39       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-29 23:08     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-11-30 15:19       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-02 21:56         ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-04  9:01           ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-05  0:20             ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-05 18:42               ` Carl Witty
2006-12-05 20:41                 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-05 22:29                   ` Carl Witty
2006-12-05  0:38         ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-02 22:02       ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2006-12-10 12:30       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-11 22:32         ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-12  8:38           ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-12 20:04             ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-13  9:41               ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-31 17:10               ` Neil Jerram
2006-12-15 20:52             ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-12 19:05     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-13  9:14       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-12 19:16     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-13  9:20       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-12 21:37     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-13  9:28       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-13 20:10         ` Kevin Ryde

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