[Swift-devel] Some observations

[Tiberiu Stef-Praun]

I was trying to read into swift the contents of a file which contained
a float (e.g. 0.415599405693).
It has been suggested that I use readData.
If did not work (some error about unable to cast to java.lang.Integer)
whatever output type I was using:
float x=readData(file);
int x=readData(file);
string x=readData(file);

However, completely unexpectedly, it worked with @extractint(file),
and it even returned the correct float value.

This is abit confusing, but at least I got my problem solved.

Tibi

PS: it would be really-really good to have swift work with cygwin.

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Tiberiu (Tibi) Stef-Praun, PhD
Computational Sciences Researcher
Computation Institute
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University of Chicago
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