In article <··········@info-server.bbn.com> ·····@bbn.com writes:
>In article <····················@bingen.hrp.no> ······@hrp.no (Eyvind Ness) writes:
>--> I agree with that, but where is the PARSE-FLOAT built-in?
>been wondering this myself recently. is this an oversite, or what?
There are lots of data types that don't have a specific PARSE-<type>
function. There's no PARSE-SYMBOL, PARSE-ARRAY, PARSE-COMPLEX,
PARSE-RATIONAL, etc.
CLIM provides much of this, in a much more useful form.
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Barry Margolin ······@netcom.com