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bug#16293: 24.3.50; doc of `string-to-number'
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Drew Adams |
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bug#16293: 24.3.50; doc of `string-to-number' |
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Sun, 29 Dec 2013 15:07:49 -0800 (PST) |
> > Say what happens if STRING cannot successfully be parsed as a number:
> > the function raises an error.
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> When would it give an error, rather than 0?
If it never raises an error, then say explicitly that for any
string that cannot successfully be parsed as a number it returns 0.
(Cf. bug #16294, which was giving me the impression at first that
`string-to-number' was raising an error.)