From: "Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
To: "Brian Hurt" <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] int_of_string bug
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:26:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd3390703291826k6002ef28i93bca9944cdbceee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703292106150.5725@localhost>
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On 3/29/07, Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> wrote:
>
>
> Wether this behavior (silent wrap around) is correct or not is another
> argument. Elsewhere I have opinioned that the only purpose for having
> more than one type of integer in your programming language is so that
> programmers can pick the wrong one. But I'm widely known to be a heretic.
>
> Ocaml's behavior is, at least, *consistent*.
Not really all that consistent:
# int_of_string "1073741824";;
- : int = -1073741824
# int_of_string "1073741825";;
Exception: Failure "int_of_string".
#
y
Brian
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 16:27 Yaron Minsky
2007-03-29 21:29 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2007-03-30 0:26 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-03-30 7:30 ` Florian Weimer
2007-03-30 8:44 ` skaller
2007-03-30 8:59 ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-03-30 9:20 ` skaller
2007-03-30 1:21 ` Brian Hurt
2007-03-30 1:26 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2007-03-30 4:23 ` skaller
2007-03-30 5:59 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-03-30 6:22 ` skaller
2007-03-30 13:38 ` Markus Mottl
2007-04-03 17:51 ` Toby Kelsey
2007-04-03 22:37 ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
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