Francois Thomasset wrote:

>>Beck01, Wolfgang wrote:
>>
>>There's another problem too:
>>
>># string_of_float 42.0;;
>>- : string = "42"
>>
>>The result isn't an ocaml float literal.
>>
>Is it not?
># float_of_string (string_of_float 42.0);;
>- : float = 42
>So if you know that there is a float in the string, it is a float isn't it?
>
It isn't a floating point literal, in ocaml, C, or any other language.
Floating point literals always have either a decimal indicator
or an exponent. It should return "42.0", in my opinion:
"42" is an integer.

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