OpenEuphoria

Re: Help Please with numbers

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Aug 02, 2005
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cklester wrote:
> 
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:33:31 -0700, cklester <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > >This is an argument for ESL's sum() function being able to handle all
> > >types...
> > 
> > Holes in this example aside, there is a clear difference between
> > expectation of sum({49,50,51}) and sum("123").
> 
> Good catch. ;)
> 
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I had thought about this case. I think that the programmer would just have to be
clear in what he or she wants.  sum(1) makes as much sense as sum("123").

sum("123", 0) should work correctly. sum("123") would produce 150 because it is
ambiguous.

I still wonder whether it would be a useful feature. How often is implicit
conversion from string to number needed?

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