nicnilov
Surely this has been asked and explained before, but for some reason I couldn’t find it.
stringmust be the string representation of an integer. Otherwise, anArgumentErrorwill be raised.
If an exception is a possibility and there is a convention of marking such functions with a trailing exclamation mark in the name, why doesn’t this function have it?
Thanks!
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hst337
Because there is no non-raising analog function with the same name. If you take a closer look, all bang functions have their analogs without bangs.
FYI, If you want to handle parsing error, use
Integer.parsenicnilov
That’s not quite correct. In the same conventions linked above we read:
To be clear, my question is nomenclatural, I’m not looking for workarounds.
hst337
Hmm, you’re right. Well, it is a good question for someone from Elixir core team