String>>asInteger does not like negative integers
Nevin Pratt
nevin at bountifulbaby.com
Wed Aug 4 16:26:45 UTC 2004
Michael Roberts wrote:
> Nevin Pratt wrote:
>
>> Anybody have any insight on why String>>asInteger doesn't seem to
>> think negative integers are really integers?
>
>
> I reported this as a bug back in January but I didn't follow it up.
> There was a small thread on the subject. I don't have a BFAV handy to
> see if anything happened on it or if it is still open as a bug.
>
> Sorry, cheers
>
> Mike
Ah, yes. Now I remember. I even responded to that thread. There was a
bunch of discussion about various reimplementation possibilities, some
of which involved raising exceptions, etc. I personally lean towards
one of Doug's simple solutions, which I've copied below.
Nevin
> From Doug Way, 1/21/04:
> I agree that the naming here is bad enough to be considered a bug.
> The solution would appear to be to rename String>>asInteger to
> String>>asUnsignedInteger, and rename String>>asSignedInteger to
> String>>asInteger. (Or possibly keep asSignedInteger, but that seems
> like a bad idea.)
>
> It looks like there are no senders of asUnsignedInteger in the alpha
> image. There are lots of senders of asInteger, but many of those are
> converting from other Number types. I'd guess that probably none of
> the senders rely on the signed behavior, but we'd just have to wait
> and see if any bugs showed up.
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