[Seaside-dev] Seaside2.8a1-lr.518 will be Seaside 2.8 final

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/10/24, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemstone.com>:
> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
> >2007/10/24, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemstone.com>:
> >
> >
> >>Philippe,
> >>
> >>So I'm running the tests after merging Seaside2.8a1-lr.518 and I find
> >>that we're failing WAPlatformTest>>testAsString....Specifically '0.1'
> >>asString returns the 'wrong' value.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What does wrong in this case mean?
> >
> >
>  '1.0000000000000001E-01' --- so it is correct as far as a string
> representation of 0.1, but wrong as far as the test is concerned and
> more annoying than wrong as far as a human is concerned...

As long as this can still be parsed into the same or a close
Float/Double I don't think it is a problem. Not pleasing to the
REST-zealot eye like _k, yes, but not a bug.

Cheers
Philippe

> >These tests as well as the #displayString tests are more a precaution
> >
> >
> >measure to spot possible problems. Like this or nil. It's more to find
> >out what we can do and what we can't.
> >
> >
> >
> Okey dokey. Then for now I will adjust the test in 2.8g1, so that we can
> pass.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale
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