[PD] how to change symbol to float

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 07/07/15 03:31, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Cyrille Henry <ch at chnry.net
> > <mailto:ch at chnry.net>> wrote:
> >     look like it's more a s2i than a s2f
> > True! Now it's real s2f
>
> Having tried this strategy myself I discovered there are many pitfalls.
> The following are valid floating point representation that your
> abstraction will not parse:
>
> -2.58934e+27
>
Covered!

>
> I think there are also valid values like "-0.0" and "inf" that can come
> from floating point numbers rendered as strings and could cause some
> troubles.
>
Covered "inf", but not "-0.0", it will just output -0
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