[mercury-users] string__to_float

[Ralph Becket]

Michael Day, Monday, 11 February 2002:
> 
> Perhaps the documentation for string__to_float should be amended to state 
> that it accepts strings of the form "123.0abc" and will only fail if the 
> beginning of the string is not numeric.

That is an error in string__to_float - it should fail if the entire
string argument is not a well formed float representation.

- Ralph
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