[PD] how to change symbol to float

Tue Jul 7 11:33:55 CEST 2015

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On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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