Re: On removing some obsolete code from subr and core

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05.11.2016 17:52, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:

> I never understood this one.  The name string-to-int suggests that you'll get 
> an error if your string doesn't describe an int.

I'm just guessing, but that probably never happened. stirng-to-number 
works like this:

ELISP> (string-to-number "abc")
0 (#o0, #x0, ?\C-@)
ELISP> (string-to-number "22.2abc")
22.2

> How do you get a proper string-to-int behavior in Emacs Lisp? With (let ((v 
> (string-to-number s))) (when (floatp v) (error …)))?

By calling `floor' on the result of string-to-number, I guess.