[Nix-dev] isFloat

[Christian Theune]

Hi,

> On 04 Jan 2016, at 17:27, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/01/16 17:12, Rok Garbas wrote:
> 
>> should we add this to nixpkgs/lib? it is usefull (using it right now) :)
> 
> IMHO, it would be cleaner to add floats to the Nix language. Before somebody
> decides to implement floating point arithmetic using a bunch of regexps ;-)

Plus one! I think we also started converting to floats. IIRC we used fromJSON for the conversion … :)

I’m getting curious what this would actually entail …

*digs into code*

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