From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA03714; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:33:20 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03493 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:33:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g45HXGP12254; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:33:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g45HXDXt002831; Mon, 6 May 2002 03:33:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp23.dyn71.pacific.net.au [202.7.71.23]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id DAA07471; Mon, 6 May 2002 03:33:10 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CD56CD5.7010106@ozemail.com.au> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 03:33:09 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francois Thomasset CC: "Beck01, Wolfgang" , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float less accurate than sprintf "%f" ? References: <200205021254.g42CsZv21816@ionie.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Francois Thomasset wrote: >>Beck01, Wolfgang wrote: >> >>There's another problem too: >> >># string_of_float 42.0;; >>- : string = "42" >> >>The result isn't an ocaml float literal. >> >Is it not? ># float_of_string (string_of_float 42.0);; >- : float = 42 >So if you know that there is a float in the string, it is a float isn't it? > It isn't a floating point literal, in ocaml, C, or any other language. Floating point literals always have either a decimal indicator or an exponent. It should return "42.0", in my opinion: "42" is an integer. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners