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Re: Proposal for a (small) enhancement to the value() function.

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agriculture.gouv.fr> Jun 25, 2007
• 697 views

ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > Currently, value(), defined in get.e, takes a sequence and returns {status
> > code,
> > value read}.
> > The proposed enhancement is to return 
> > {status code,
> >  value read,
> >  number of characters read,
> >  number of leading whitespace characters}.
> > 
> > This can be done at the cost of creating a duplicated, slightly modified
> > copy
> > of the internal Get() function, so that performance won't be affacted at
> > all.
> > get() won't be affected, since where() will give you most of the same
> > information.
> > 
> > Any thoughts? issues? other suggestions?
> > CChris
> 
> If backwards compatability is not affected, then no problems - since I'm
> only interested in value[2] its not a problem for me.
> 
> Chris

The only compatibility issue I can think of is that code that says:

if equal(value(s),{GET_SUCCESS,3.14}) then...

 will break.
Is it a problem?

CChris