On 9/20/13, Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislag...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. I'll respond with the expected answer: "What does Delphi do" (if it > has this function?
D7 PE does not have it. > 2. I wouldn't be bothered by negative numbers... even the Romans used to > have negative posessions (= debts) and they didn't have double entry > bookkeeping yet ;) Also, the documentation [1] mentions it as a feature. If I mention in documentationn that result is unpredicted for any input e.g. for function StrToInt(S), because ATMI implemented it like Result := StringOfChar(Char(Random(256)),Random(256)), then this would also not considered to be a bug, just it because does what the docs say? > 3. The rest... well, depending on 1. I'd agree it's a bug. > [1] mentions "Invalid characters are dropped from S"... which I think is > a bit strange (S is a const) but assuming it means "Invalid characters > in S are ignored" it means somebody thought checking the input for valid > Roman numbers was a good idea. The question however becomes "what is the > algorithm for deciding invalid characters" which IMO will become a mess > very quickly. Much better to just consider the entire input as invalid. Any invalid char in S will result in Result being 0; So doc is wrong about that. Bart _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
