OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 27, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > 
> > I see now what you mean. However, I still don't know whether it's a good
> > idea to change the value() function in the proposed way.
> > 
> > CChris wrote:
> > 
> > > value() is meant to read any Euphoria object out of a string, the same way
> > > get()
> > > reads it out of a file, as written in the docs. This has nothing to do
> > > with
> > > numeric values.
> > 
> > Of course value() has got something to do with numeric values.
> 
> Barely, and not mainly. A least, I have hardly ever used it for that purpose.

Wow! I never knew it was a general purpose routine. I thought it only converted
a string to a number and I've only ever used it for that purpose.

But I don't like it much as it doesn't handle a whole lot of potential error
conditions so I use my own toNumber() function.


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Derek Parnell
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