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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | David Allsopp <dra-news@m...> |
| Subject: | RE: [Caml-list] Strange behaviour of string_of_float |
> > All that said, the values given by
> > string_of_float cannot always be fed back to float_of_string anyway
> > (e.g. float_of_string (string_of_float nan))
>
> euh, why do you say that ? it does :
>
> # float_of_string (string_of_float nan) ;;
> - : float = nan
Because:
Objective Caml version 3.09.3
# float_of_string (string_of_float nan);;
Exception: Failure "float_of_string".
but this is clearly fixed in 3.10!
David