From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA05333; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:21:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07776 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:21:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from null.cs.brown.edu (null.cs.brown.edu [128.148.38.190]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h6EGLCT18960 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:21:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from miette (miette [128.148.38.66]) by null.cs.brown.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AB93F4E for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:21:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from er by miette with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19c64d-0007F1-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:21:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:21:11 -0400 From: Manos Renieris To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange error w/ Mlgraph.make_font Message-ID: <20030714162111.GA27700@cs.brown.edu> Reply-To: Manos Renieris References: <20030714033820.GI4031@swordfish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030714033820.GI4031@swordfish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; renieris:01 caml-list:01 font:99 0600,:01 gushee:01 bug:01 semicolons:01 3.04.:01 camlcvs:01 cvsweb:01 byterun:01 floats:01 1.31:01 ocaml:01 float:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:38:21PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote: > I have been doing some work with Mlgraph lately, and have noticed a > problem with the make_font function: > > Exception: Failure "float_of_string". > What's strange about this is that it's almost certain that anyone > who tried to use MLgraph would have discovered this bug a long time > ago, so I can only think that, once upon a time, it wasn't a bug, but > something outside of Mlgraph changed to cause the error. For example: > > Older versions of OCaml had a float_of_string function that > ignored trailing semicolons. > > Anybody know what the real reason might be? float_of_string used to ignore trailing characters, but not since 3.04. http://camlcvs.inria.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ocaml/byterun/floats.c.diff?r1=1.30&r2=1.31 -- Manos ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners