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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Omit warning about exact fractions when as


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Omit warning about exact fractions when asked for an inexact value
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:13:05 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Peter Bex scripsit:

> And, after thinking about it some more, I'm convinced it's not even
> too bad to have the check in this place - if the user asked for an
> exact and whichever flavor of string->number we are using is unable to
> deliver, that's worth a warning.

The numbers egg should really use an entirely separate strategy for 
string to number conversion (including `read`).  I have filed ticket #804.

-- 
John Cowan  address@hidden  http://ccil.org/~cowan
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
        --Brian K. Reid



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