[Gambas-user] Bug / changed behaviour of Input

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 14/03/2012 19:46, Jussi Lahtinen a écrit :
>> That's the difference, If you pass the string "1234" to Read As Integer,
>> you get the Integer 875770417, because "1234" is in ascii 49 50 51 52, and
>> 49 + 50*(2^8) + 51*(2^16) + 52*(2^24) = 875770417.
>>
>
> True. I'm slow today. Maybe it's my fever, but I just can't lay down doing
> nothing. Makes me bored to tears.
>
>
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> If Input only returns the raw string, the user can do the Val on his/her
>> own afterwards, if he/she wants to.
>> In most cases (if Input simply returns the raw string),
>> Dim a As Integer
>> Input a
>> is good, because Input returns a String, and correct string to int
>> conversion is done automatically.
>>
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> I agree. Now we need to convince Benoit...
>
> Jussi

I agree that the current behaviour of Input is useless. As I didn't use 
Input at all, I didn't really care.

Now we must agree about how Input can be really useful.

At the moment, I am more with Emil : just read strings separated by 
spaces. The conversion will be done by the datatype of the destination 
variable.

This implies that the input of Input (funny) is not localized, and so 
Gambas 3.1 will not be compatible with Gambas 3.0.

As Gambas 3.0 programs should run unchanged with Gambas 3.1, we are 
breaking the rule.

I will do the change, hope that nobody relies on the current Input 
behaviour, and see if someone complains. As usual. :-)

-- 
Benoît Minisini