From: "Olivier Andrieu" <oandrieu@nerim.net>
To: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: "caml-list caml-list" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange behaviour of string_of_float
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:55:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95513600806230155r4283b8k84d5b94f0f0dc3c5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6975022428ED405199F4BC4DE14D970B@countertenor>
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:45, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> All that said, the values given by
> string_of_float cannot always be fed back to float_of_string anyway (e.g.
> float_of_string (string_of_float nan))
euh, why do you say that ? it does :
# float_of_string (string_of_float nan) ;;
- : float = nan
float_of_string is basically strtod which should correctly handle nan and inf.
--
Olivier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 16:56 Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-22 19:58 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-06-22 20:45 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23 1:25 ` Brian Hurt
2008-06-23 7:50 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23 8:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2008-06-23 8:50 ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-06-23 8:35 ` Jon Harrop
2008-06-22 20:32 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-06-22 20:50 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23 8:45 ` David Allsopp
2008-06-23 8:55 ` Olivier Andrieu [this message]
2008-06-23 12:06 ` David Allsopp
2008-06-23 1:06 ` Brian Hurt
2008-06-23 7:58 ` Xavier Leroy
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