I'm trying to think up some way that a single character could produce a non-integer floating-point value and I don't think there is any. Unless we handled ½ and such ;-)
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 10:39:42 AM UTC-5, J Luis wrote: >> >> Than the confusion is even bigger (not intentional for sure) >> >> julia> parsefloat(a[2]) >> ERROR: `parsefloat` has no method matching parsefloat(::Char) >> >> julia> parseint(a[2]) >> 2 >> > > We could certainly add a parsefloat(c::Char) = float(parseint(c)) method. > I'm not sure I see the motivation, though; why not just use parseint? >
