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string->number errors on e.g. "1e400xyz"

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: 18932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [Anand Mohanadoss] symbol printing problem
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:35:55 +0200

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From: Anand Mohanadoss <anand108 <at> gmail.com>
To: guile-user <at> gnu.org
Subject: symbol printing problem
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 18:04:45 +0530

Hi,

We observed the following with guile 2.0.11 -

scheme@(guile-user)> (define sym '912828S7912810RS)
While reading expression:
ERROR: In procedure string->number: Value out of range: 7912810

Is this expected?  Do we need to enable any read-options?  If this is
expected, it appears that if we are creating symbols from random data, we
need to do a symbol->string before printing it.  Is this the recommendation
or should we do something else?

Thank you!
Anand

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