On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 08:05:37 bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
> > I don't see std.conv.to changing.
>
> We'll see.
As far as I recall, you're the only person to ever bring this up (though you
have brought it up before). In general, I think that programmers are fine with
how to!int
Jonathan M Davis:
> and it's the sort of thing that
> he's likely to consider bikeshedding at this point -
He isn't the only Phobos developer. It's a change able to improve my usage of
conversions, so it's not a neutral change (as I think 'bikeshedding' implies).
> particularly since he's
>
Zardoz:
> Try parse!int(" 12\n");
> http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_conv.html#parse
It doesn't work, because it accepts a ref string. So you have to write:
string s = " 12\n";
int n = parse!int(s);
But it doesn't work still, it chokes on the first space, so you have to remove
i
On Monday, January 30, 2012 21:01:38 bearophile wrote:
> In Python int() and float() convert a string into a number even if it
contains some whitespace before and after the number:
> >>> s = " 12\n"
> >>> int(s)
>
> 12
>
> >>> float(s)
>
> 12.0
>
>
> In D to!int(" 12\n") gives a run-time er
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:01:38 -0500, bearophile wrote:
>
> In D to!int(" 12\n") gives a run-time error. So time ago I have weakly
> asked Andrei to change to!int, to let it ignore leading and trailing
> whitespace, but he has ignored my request.
>
> A leading newline comes often from input std
