On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> 1) I've serious troubles with the precision of string_to_num. The test
> bewow fails, 1.e100 isn't really 10**100.
> 2) I've modified string_to_num to just use atof() which works.
I so wish this were the case. Unfortunately it's not. atof's behaviour
isn't standardized across platforms--using it means that source will
behave differently depending on where it's compiled, which is bad.
I thought we'd grabbed perl 5's string-to-num code. If not, we should. The
licenses match, and we know it works.
> 3) This makes 2 tests fail (pmc_22, pmc_32). *But* these seem both to be
> bogus: I can't imagine that e.g. "Z1" should evaluate to int(1).
I can't think of a reason Z1 should be 1 -- it ought to be zero.
Dan
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