From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] int_of_string bug
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:21:40 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703292106150.5725@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <891bd3390703290927o4e1c6bb5gf8f562fedbc70096@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, 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
I'm actually not sure this is a bug either. Note that ocaml will quite
happily compute max_int+1 without an error either.
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*.
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 1:08 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 [this message]
2007-03-30 1:26 ` Yaron Minsky
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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