"I. Szczesniak" wrote:
> On 12/16/08, I. Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> > David, could you add the C99 arithmetic function "nan()" (long double
> > nanl(const char *tagp);) and C99 Bessel functions j0, j1, jn, y0, y1,
> > yn to the next ksh release, please?
>
> I figure nan() will be tough as ksh has no support to pass strings to
> arithmetic functions but the Bessel functions are very important for
> us.
The interesting question is how to pass a string to an arithmetric
function in ksh93 syntax. I'm not sure whether this is even possible...
... David: Does the POSIX standard allow something like $ print -- $((
atof("5.1") )) # or $ str="5.1" ; print -- $(( atof(str) )) # ?
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Bye,
Roland
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