From: "Jonathan Roewen" <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
To: oliver@first.in-berlin.de
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Arg-module: Float-Args also accept integer values
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:30:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78403809480-BeMail@beos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78109874304-BeMail@beos>
> > ===========================================
> > first:~ oliver$ ocaml
> > Objective Caml version 3.09.2
> >
> > # let floatingpoint_id (x:float) = x;;
> > val floatingpoint_id : float -> float = <fun>
> > # floatingpoint_id 42;;
> > This expression has type int but is here used with type float
> > #
> > ===========================================
>
> float_of_string doesn't use the ocaml type system ;-) Don't know
> about
> impl details, but it's basically like atof (or whatever it's called)
> in
> standard C libs. The two are completely separate.
Oops, I should clarify: float_of_string doesn't use the ocaml lexing
tools that are used in the toplevel, and the compilers themselves.
That's why it parses integers.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 20:57 Oliver Bandel
2006-08-08 21:19 ` [Caml-list] " William D. Neumann
2006-08-08 21:33 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-08-08 21:40 ` Sachin Shah
2006-08-08 22:12 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-08-09 3:25 ` Jonathan Roewen
2006-08-09 3:30 ` Jonathan Roewen [this message]
2006-08-09 5:54 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-08-09 6:13 ` Jonathan Roewen
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