Re: [1.8.0beta2] tiny little bug

• Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:15:38 PST
• From:
  hpa@trantor.storm.net (H. Peter Anvin)
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In article <v02130538ad466dbf2908@[194.109.20.133]>,
Kai Storbeck <kais@dds.nl> wrote:
>
>;tonum(" - 3.9")
>=> 0
>
>Can the behaviour be changed?
>

It isn't a bug.  -3.9 is not an integer constant:

;tonum("3.9")
=> 0

Remember tonum() is an alias for toint().  For backward compatibility
it is necessary to retain this behaiour.   What you want to do is one of:

; tofloat(" - 3.9");
=> -3.9

; toint(tofloat(" - 3.9"))
=> -3

	-hpa

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