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Add reference to parseint() in conversion docs
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Nicer for the user who may wonder what's the correct solution.
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nalimilan committed Nov 16, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ numbers as strings to be conversions (many dynamic languages will even
perform conversion for you automatically), however Julia does not: even
though some strings can be parsed as numbers, most strings are not valid
representations of numbers, and only a very limited subset of them are.
Therefore in Julia the dedicated ``parseint`` function must be used
to perform this operation, making it more explicit.

Defining New Conversions
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