[Gambas-user] IsFloat

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Also that would prevent mix up with IsXXX functions when moving from Gambas
2 to 3.

Jussi


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:18, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>wrote:

> I was wondering if some (definitely not all!) of IsXXX functions should
> have different names, example SafeForXXX or similar?
> That would describe their new functionality better.
> Example, IsNull really tells if value Is Null or not (so IsNull is good
> name), but IsFloat tells only if value is safe to interpret as float.
> So it doesn't really say if value *Is Float* or not.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jussi
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> 2010/12/21 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>
>
> > I think it's right, because an integer isn't a float. Maybe you're
>> thinking
>> > in other function like "CanBeConvertedToFloat()" (doesn't exist in
>> gambas
>> > but it's on my own functions set).
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Ricardo Díaz
>> >
>>
>> I think Jussi is right there. After all, an Integer or a Long can always
>> be
>> converted to a Float.
>>
>> So I will modify IsFloat() accordingly, and it will becoming a synonymous
>> of
>> IsNumber().
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Benoît Minisini
>>
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