From: Manos Renieris <er@cs.brown.edu>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange error w/ Mlgraph.make_font
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:21:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714162111.GA27700@cs.brown.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030714033820.GI4031@swordfish>
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:38:21PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> I have been doing some work with Mlgraph lately, and have noticed a
> problem with the make_font function:
>
> Exception: Failure "float_of_string".
> What's strange about this is that it's almost certain that anyone
> who tried to use MLgraph would have discovered this bug a long time
> ago, so I can only think that, once upon a time, it wasn't a bug, but
> something outside of Mlgraph changed to cause the error. For example:
>
> Older versions of OCaml had a float_of_string function that
> ignored trailing semicolons.
>
> Anybody know what the real reason might be?
float_of_string used to ignore trailing characters, but not since 3.04.
http://camlcvs.inria.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ocaml/byterun/floats.c.diff?r1=1.30&r2=1.31
-- Manos
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-14 3:38 Matt Gushee
2003-07-14 14:32 ` Florian Hars
2003-07-14 14:48 ` Matt Gushee
2003-07-14 15:19 ` Florian Hars
2003-07-14 16:21 ` Manos Renieris [this message]
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