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Re: Should to_number return a sequence?

• Posted by euphoric (admin) 1 week ago
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Yikes! That is a terrible implementation of a to_number() function*.

If you want all that other functionality, create proper functions for them. Then do,

if can_be_a_number(can_this_be_a_number_var) then 
  return to_number(can_this_be_a_number_var) 
else 
  return Null 
end if 

to_number() should return a number or Null (?) if it cannot convert the given object. O or maybe even crash?.

If you want to wrap it yourself, do something like, safe_to_number(can_this_be_a_number_var,X,Y,...).

*I could be wrong.