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changeset 39196:4e9db7a710f8
(String Conversion) <string-to-number>: Document
that a float is returned for integers that are too large.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:41:41 +0000 |
| parents | 004939041c32 |
| children | f56fa34012c0 |
| files | lispref/strings.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/strings.texi Sat Sep 08 14:30:12 2001 +0000 +++ b/lispref/strings.texi Sat Sep 08 17:41:41 2001 +0000 @@ -536,7 +536,9 @@ in that base. If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. Floating point conversion always uses base ten; we have not implemented other radices for floating point numbers, because that would be much -more work and does not seem useful. +more work and does not seem useful. If @var{string} looks like an +integer but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer, +@code{string-to-number} returns a floating point result. The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number. (On some