Re: [WWdevel] Re: Problem with num_cmp and strings

[Michael G. <ga...@ma...>]

I think it would be good idea to make a news announcement on the  
bulletin board telling those experiencing problems with
numerical compare with strings to either set useOldAnswerEvaluators  
to 0 or to update the appropriate files. (which are?)

I'm still a little overwhelmed getting things back on an even keel  
with hosted.webwork, so it may be a day or two before I can
do this.  You can do in advance if you have time, or if you have time  
to write up the explanation I'll post it.  Otherwise I can
write up the explanation of how to make the fix and post it sometime  
Thursday or Friday.

Thanks much.

Take care,

Mike

On Sep 13, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Davide P. Cervone wrote:

>> Thanks, Davide.  Sorry to have caused the trouble.
>>
>
> No problem; I didn't mean to accuse you of anything, just pointing  
> out where the trouble creeped in.
>
> Do you have a sense of how many sites are using the parser-based  
> versions of num_cmp versus the traditional versions?  This error  
> will affect any problem that uses strings and has a string-valued  
> answer, so could potentially cause problems for a lot of people if  
> they are using the old answer macros.  (This was in the 2.1.3  
> release, wasn't it?)  Do they need to be informed?
>
> Davide
>
>
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