[Gd-hackers] String-to-float in OpenDylan

[Andreas Bogk]

Gareth Baker schrieb:
> String-to-float seems to have gone awol in OpenDylan (at least I can't find
> it in any library definition). There is a reference to it in one of the duim
> sources and an atof function in lexer.dylan. Is this atof function suitable
> for re-exporting as a string-to-float function in common-dylan (i.e. Could I
> just do a temporary cut-and-paste into my sources)?

Copy&paste of atof is probably the way to go.  Peter Housel once wrote a
precise string-to-float and float-to-sting for GD, but it requires
bignums, which OD doesn't have.

Andreas