Summary

#i and #e don't work correctly in the numbers egg

Metadata

• Id: 00cb4f42a7073bf83685b767da19c6edd4037c3b
• Trac id: 804
• Type: defect
• Reporter: johnwcowan
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: extensions
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: duplicate
• Priority: major
• Milestone: 4.9.0
• Version: 4.7.x
• Changetime: 2012-09-24 21:47:48 UTC
• Created: 2012-03-21 23:12:20 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

`#e1e400` currently returns `+inf.0` rather than exact 10^400^.

`#e2.3` currently returns `2.3` rather than `23/10`

`#i1/2` currently returns `1/2` instead of `0.5`

`#e+inf.0` currently returns `+inf.0` instead of reporting an error

No warnings should be printed.

A reasonable strategy is to look for `#i` and `#e`, and failing that, look for `.` and `e`. That determines which converter should be used, the exact-arithmetic one or the inexact-arithmetic one. Other than infinities and NaNs, both converters should accept the same input and do the right thing with it.

Changes and comments

[2012-03-22 12:47:54 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to closed

[2012-03-22 12:47:54 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to duplicate

[2012-03-22 12:47:54 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

Duplicate of #788 and #734, this bug has been fixed in numbers trunk and requires some extra support which is only available in Chicken 4.7.4 (see #674).

[2012-09-24 21:47:48 UTC] felix changed milestone from 4.8.0 to 4.9.0

[2012-09-24 21:47:48 UTC] felix wrote:

Milestone 4.8.0 deleted