Subject: RE: bug#16293: 24.3.50; doc of `string-to-number'

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:07:49 -0800 (PST)

> > Say what happens if STRING cannot successfully be parsed as a number:
> > the function raises an error.
> 
> When would it give an error, rather than 0?

If it never raises an error, then say explicitly that for any
string that cannot successfully be parsed as a number it returns 0.

(Cf. bug #16294, which was giving me the impression at first that
`string-to-number' was raising an error.)