GNU bug report logs - #14254
24.3; read-number fails to recognize faulty numbers (string-to-number to blame)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14254 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14254: 24.3; read-number fails to recognize faulty numbers (string-to-number to blame)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:29:18 -0400

Vitalie Spinu wrote:

> This doesn't happen because read-number relies on string-to-number to
> throw an error, which presumably was happening some time ago.

No, it used to use "read", prior to
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2012-07/msg00477.html

  Replace `read' with `string-to-number' for consistency with
  `number-to-string'.

I don't know why that mattered, it seems to bear no relation to the rest
of the change. Going back to "read" again will fix this.
Done in emacs-24.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 13 days ago.

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