OpenEuphoria

Re: Help Please with numbers

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 02, 2005
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> 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?

You could just provide the base functionality of summing only integers/atoms
in a sequence, and if the user wanted more they could wrap it themselves.

sumi() -- sum a list of integers
suma() -- sum a list of atoms
sum() -- sum a list of atoms and/or integers

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/