[m-dev.] for review: allow io__read for some univs

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Oct 20 18:05:56 AEST 1999


On 20-Oct-1999, Mark Anthony BROWN <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Allow io__read, term__term_to_type, etc, to read in some values of
> type univ.
> 
> library/io.m:
> 	Fix a misleading comment---some limitations of `io__read'
> 	were not explicit.
> 
> library/term.m:
> 	Add some extra cases to `term_to_univ_special_case', to
> 	handle values of type `univ' which contain either an
> 	int, a float or a string.

That change looks fine.

Is there any particular reason why you want it to handle those
particular cases?

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