Re: string-to-float

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On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 05:00 AM, Carl Gay wrote:

> What about getting together a library of utility code that is less
> formal than common-dylan?  I have a few little goodies that I use
> in just about every Dylan project that would be good in a utility
> library (most of which were written by others):  inc!, dec!, iff,
> with-simple-restart, <sealed-constructor>, <singleton-object>.

There's the *-ext libraries in gd/common (note that this is not 
common-dylan, it's code that's common to mindy and d2c!). So we have 
collections-ext, string-ext, etc. Extension code should go in these. I'd 
like to formalise the *-ext libraries so that they're either candidate 
code for the next revision of the core Dylan libraries or they're a 
standard way of extending the core libraries.

> I'd also love to see a comprehensive string library.

I think there was a proposal a while back on the private common-dylan 
list. I don't know what became of it.

>  You've got a tokenizer,

I'd like to generalise it into a stream or collection tokenizer.

> I have quote-html and just converted base64
> encoding/decoding from Common Lisp, and Scott McKay's string utils
> are in almost everything I've ever written.

Where's Scott's string utils?

> Anyone else got anything to add?  I'd be happy to organize it
> and put it on a web page.

Well, as I say I'd add my stuff to *-ext, but if you set up a 
sourceforge project or something I can donate stuff so it's easy to use 
with FD.

- Rob.