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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