GNU bug report logs - #16293
24.3.50; doc of `string-to-number'

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:21:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 16293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com, 16293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#16293: 24.3.50; doc of `string-to-number'
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.)
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