On 3/29/07, Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:27:05PM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > So, there's a weird int_of_string bug where positive decimal numbers are
> > sometimes read in as negative numbers without error.  Here's the bug:
> >
> > http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=0004210
> >
> > This has been marked as "wontfix" in the bug database because apparently
> > there's some weird spot in the lexer that depends on the wrong behavior
> of
> > int_of_string.
> [...]
>
> Oh, that's bad. :(
>
> But btw. it's also bad that, when overflowing of int occurs, no
> exception is thrown. :(


That's a problem too, but there is at least a defensible reason for that,
which is that it is expensive to get integer overflow to throw an exception.

Ciao,
>    Oliver Bandel
>
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