On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:29:41 +0200
Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 08/09/2018 10:16 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:00:48 +0200
> > Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> >> I guess that backwards compatibility should be important here, but I
> >> hope there are stronger reasons for
> On 11 Aug 2018, at 11:33, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>
> On 08/09/2018 10:20 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>>> On 9 Aug 2018, at 21:20, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> My background is in humanities and I don’t understand the exponent for
>>> being a float ("10²" contains an exponent
>>>
On 08/09/2018 10:25 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> In addition to what others already explained, you should not depend on
> features that are implementation dependent or might disappear.
Many thanks for your detailed explanation, Hans.
I had no idea that the automatic conversion from string to number
On 08/09/2018 10:20 PM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>> On 9 Aug 2018, at 21:20, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> My background is in humanities and I don’t understand the exponent for
>> being a float ("10²" contains an exponent
>> [https://www.m-w.com/dictionary/exponent], but I would say is an integer
On 08/09/2018 10:16 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:00:48 +0200
> Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> I guess that backwards compatibility should be important here, but I
>> hope there are stronger reasons for breaking it.
>
> tonumber() provides backwards compatibility. And the
