Subject: Re: String to real From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/06/09 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3169497633588180@naggum.no> * Howard Ding <hading@worldnet.att.net> | Anyway, there appears to be a Lisp implementation of parse-float at | the CMU repository: Since the correctness of parsing floating point numbers depends heavily on other parts of the implementation, I consider using a third-party float-parser very, very risky. It's safer to use a foreign function call to C than to assume you have sufficient control over the representation in Common Lisp to piece together a floating point number. And remember print-read consistency! #:Erik -- If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.