Re: reading a float?

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: reading a float?
From: Scott Ribe <sribe@miqs.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Bruce Hoult wrote:
> 
> But surely this hits C users as well?  Anyone who cares that deeply on a
> particular platform will have already written their own function if the
> provided one isn't up to scratch and they can plug that into their Dylan.
> Better still, they should be submitting it to their C library provider...

Perhaps they don't store in ASCII? I haven't. Floating-point formats are
much more standardized now than they used to be...

References:

reading a float?

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