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| author | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2022-05-10 06:30:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2022-05-10 06:30:34 +0200 |
| commit | 93a74773b61334905ff174537b63647e495fef95 (patch) | |
| tree | 4124f871b94921dcf157bd4620b8cebb8e2a3bd5 /doc/lispref/strings.texi | |
| parent | 3c5e1f8ec8d5d52e5bbf185d9618852e7d04e3ca (diff) | |
| parent | 7b4bdf7b9b0f4c72dbd1b15f5d134d3176e53a8a (diff) | |
| download | emacs-93a74773b61334905ff174537b63647e495fef95.tar.gz | |
Merge from origin/emacs-28
7b4bdf7b9b Remove the AUCTeX subsection from MS-Windows FAQ
d2a5631552 Update AUCTeX FAQ entry
177718bc6d Update string-to-number documentation to bignum Emacs
74cc3b525f Fix doc string references to tags-loop-continue
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/strings.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/strings.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/strings.texi b/doc/lispref/strings.texi index 5e41f8d57bf..488967088b7 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/strings.texi @@ -856,9 +856,7 @@ between 2 and 16 (inclusive), and integers are converted in that base. If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. Floating-point conversion only works in base ten; we have not implemented other radices for floating-point numbers, because that would be much more -work and does not seem useful. If @var{string} looks like an integer -but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer, -@code{string-to-number} returns a floating-point result. +work and does not seem useful. The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number in |