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Re: type string

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Mar 15, 1999
• 603 views

At 04:35 PM 15-03-1999 , you wrote:
>Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM> wrote:
>
>>But it would be a pitfall to me to use a type that allowed floats as
>>characters; the only time I would ever drop a decimal number into a string
>>would be on accident (although I'm sure others take advantage of the
>>flexibility all of the time.)
>
>Hmm, let's put that to the test. Does anyone out there *intentionally* use
>non-integer values in their strings?

I don't... now. How know the future? I used to always floor() my subscript
values till I discovered that the rounding is automagically performed.
There might be algorithms that take advantage of this feauture.


Regards,
          Daniel  Berstein
         [ daber at pair.com ]