From: "William D. Neumann" <wneumann@cs.unm.edu>
To: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Arg-module: Float-Args also accept integer values
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:19:15 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0608081515510.11319@io.cs.unm.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060808205748.GA745@first.in-berlin.de>
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> Is this a wanted behaviour?
> It's an implicit conversion from the integer value in the cli-string
> to float. Even if this is very convenient for a user, it is not
> completely following OCaml's philosophy (regarding types).
Not really. It's the same behavior as float_of_string (because it uses
float of string).
# float_of_string "42";;
- : float = 42.
William D. Neumann
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 20:57 Oliver Bandel
2006-08-08 21:19 ` William D. Neumann [this message]
2006-08-08 21:33 ` [Caml-list] " 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
2006-08-09 5:54 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-08-09 6:13 ` Jonathan Roewen
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