From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-25T23:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: No exceptions from String#to_i

Hi,

In message "Re: No exceptions from String#to_i"
    on 02/06/25, Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> writes:

|> respectively [ruby-talk:43014], and Float() raises error if to_f
|> return NaN?
|
|Sounds decent, but isn't NaN technically a float? Also, since code that
|handles floats should also be able to handle NaNs, it might be simpler to
|just pass it along. Having it raise an error means that in some cases
|there will have to be handling for both the exception from Float() and
|handling for NaNs in general.

Good point.  Hmm...

|Also, why handle Float() differently? If because there is no to_flt as of
|yet, then that holds for to_int as well... ;)

Mostly because I didn't see cases "to_flt" is useful.

							matz.