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From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "'caml-list caml-list'" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Strange behaviour of string_of_float
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:06:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <096C87B6F5B7461088B36403C0662331@countertenor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95513600806230155r4283b8k84d5b94f0f0dc3c5@mail.gmail.com>

> > All that said, the values given by
> > string_of_float cannot always be fed back to float_of_string anyway
> > (e.g. float_of_string (string_of_float nan))
>
> euh, why do you say that ? it does :
>
>   # float_of_string (string_of_float nan) ;;
>   - : float = nan

Because:


        Objective Caml version 3.09.3

# float_of_string (string_of_float nan);;
Exception: Failure "float_of_string".


but this is clearly fixed in 3.10!


David


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-23 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-22 16:56 Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-22 19:58 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-06-22 20:45   ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23  1:25     ` Brian Hurt
2008-06-23  7:50       ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23  8:32     ` Mattias Engdegård
2008-06-23  8:50       ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-06-23  8:35   ` Jon Harrop
2008-06-22 20:32 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-06-22 20:50   ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23  8:45     ` David Allsopp
2008-06-23  8:55       ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-06-23 12:06         ` David Allsopp [this message]
2008-06-23  1:06   ` Brian Hurt
2008-06-23  7:58     ` Xavier Leroy

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