[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> Yeah, but the problem isn’t on ‘nix, it’s on Windows and specifically in PowerShell.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
Although I have never looked at this shell language before, I suspect 
"complete". Going to the formal language definition, it clearly makes 
provision for conversion of numbers expressed as strings into numeric value:


    6.16 Conversion from string to numeric type

Depending on its contents, a string can be converted explicitly or 
implicitly to a numeric value. Specifically,

  * An empty string is converted to the value zero.
  * Leading and trailing spaces are ignored; however, a string may not
    consist of spaces only.
  * A string containing only white space and/or line terminators is
    converted to the value zero.
  * One leading + or - sign is permitted.
  * An integer number may have a hexadecimal prefix (0x or 0X).
  * An optionally signed exponent is permitted.
  * Type suffixes and multipliers are not permitted.
  * The case-distinct strings "-Infinity", "Infinity", and "NaN" are
    recognized as the values -∞, +∞, and NaN, respectively.

You can see how little time it took me to find this. (first find the 
formal definition of the language, then this section)

Michael D Novack

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