]> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:38:21PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote: > I have been doing some work with Mlgraph lately, and have noticed a > problem with the make_font function: > > Exception: Failure "float_of_string". > What's strange about this is that it's almost certain that anyone > who tried to use MLgraph would have discovered this bug a long time > ago, so I can only think that, once upon a time, it wasn't a bug, but > something outside of Mlgraph changed to cause the error. For example: > > Older versions of OCaml had a float_of_string function that > ignored trailing semicolons. > > Anybody know what the real reason might be? float_of_string used to ignore trailing characters, but not since 3.04. http://camlcvs.inria.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ocaml/byterun/floats.c.diff?r1=1.30&r2=1.31 -- Manos ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners