nothrow function to tell if a string can be converted to a number?

[Timothee Cour]

anyways, isNumeric sounds buggy, isn't it?


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:03 PM, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:10:32PM -0700, Timothee Cour wrote:
> > actually that doesn't work:
> >
> > assert(!isNumeric(`j`)); //ok
> > assert(!isNumeric(`i`)); //fails ; i is treated as a complex number but
> > that's not good behavior as we can't write auto a=i;
>
> Yikes!
>
> This makes me *extremely* glad built-in complex numbers are
> deprecated... can you imagine the mess that would result if you had a
> loop counter named 'i' and the loop body contains expressions involving
> 'i' and complex literals involving (the other) 'i'?
>
> *shudder*
>
>
> T
>
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