[REBOL] Re: Puzzle with FIND and SELECT
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 7-Feb-2003 12:34
Hi, Romano,
Yes, although without access to the design specs I can't say whether
it is a design bug or an implementation bug.
Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:
> don't you think that this is a bug?
>
> >> same? to-decimal 3 to-integer 3
> == true
>
Furthermore...
I now believe that the following is a misfeature:
>> print 3.0
3
With any "subtype" of ANY-STRING! (for example) the format of the
external syntax/representation suffices to allow the user to tell
*at*a*glance* the type of a value:
"this is a string"
{this is another string}
<this type="tag" confidence="obviously">
%no/doubt/a/file
and so on. I propose that the same should be true for DECIMAL! versus
INTEGER! values, with a radix point guaranteed in the result of FORM
or MOLD or any other such conversion of DECIMAL! values, so that (e.g.)
print 3.0
would output
3.
or
3.0
(I really don't care which, as long as the radix point is there).
-jn-
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