[BUG] String>>asInteger

Wolfgang Eder edw at generalmagic.at
Thu Jan 22 12:50:40 UTC 2004


Michael Roberts wrote:

(lots snipped)

> so how tight should the semantics be?  We have both conversion and 'sub-string' behaviour.

I personally vote for a more rigid, conversion behavior.
I even lean towards that '123abc' asInteger should raise an error.
The "substring" seems still useful, it could be named like
extractInteger, parseInteger, findInteger or something similar.
Just my humble 2c
Wolfgang







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