Re: >FLOAT behavior with null string

by Bruce McFarling <agila61@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 29, 2008 at 09:53 PM

On Mar 29, 11:14 pm, "Ed" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >FLOAT  is a primitive.  As such it has to cater for what is deemed
> to be common practice in programming.  If an application doesn't
> want empty or blank strings to return fp zero, it only has to test
and/or
> process the string beforehand.

Yes, what is critical is that it is explicit what it does.

8 Posts in Topic:

>FLOAT behavior with null string

Krishna Myneni <krishn

2008-03-29 13:01:12

Re: >FLOAT behavior with null string

Bruce McFarling <agila

2008-03-29 11:19:12

Re: >FLOAT behavior with null string

Elizabeth D Rather <er

2008-03-29 08:22:04

Re: >FLOAT behavior with null string

Krishna Myneni <krishn