[Gambas-user] Bugs with conversion functions

[Emil Lenngren]

It's the same in VB. If you run CInt("some string") you get the same error
message. I think it's better to throw an error message rather than
returning 0 or something...

/Emil

2012/11/3 Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>

> > First, a void string has never been a number.
> >
>
> Yes, but, why "Type mismatch: wanted Integer, got String instead"?
> "0" is also *string* and it is accepted.
>
> Also booleans are accepted and interpreted as False = 0, True = -1, which
> is not the way Boolean algebra works.
> But that is OK, because it is the usual way things work in computers.
>
> So I don't think my question was so far fetched.
>
>
>
> As CInt() being unabled to understand the "&H..." syntax, I prefer that
> > because it avoid many unexpected bugs that usually find with libc
> > conversion functions.
> >
>
> OK.
>
>
> Jussi
>
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