4 files changed, 63 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arith.c b/arith.c
index 5eb022ec..df8dbb5d 100644
--- a/arith.c
+++ b/arith.c
@@ -2297,6 +2297,22 @@ val toint(val obj, val base)
   }
 }
 
+val tofloatz(val obj)
+{
+  uses_or2;
+  if (nilp(obj))
+    return flo(0.0);
+  return or2(tofloat(obj), flo(0.0));
+}
+
+val tointz(val obj, val base)
+{
+  uses_or2;
+  if (nilp(obj))
+    return zero;
+  return or2(toint(obj, base), zero);
+}
+
 val width(val obj)
 {
   switch (tag(obj)) {
diff --git a/arith.h b/arith.h
index 4e1bf5d2..532fb5ee 100644
--- a/arith.h
+++ b/arith.h
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ val n_choose_k(val n, val k);
 val n_perm_k(val n, val k);
 val tofloat(val obj);
 val toint(val obj, val base);
+val tofloatz(val obj);
+val tointz(val obj, val base);
 val width(val num);
 void arith_init(void);
 void arith_free_all(void);
diff --git a/eval.c b/eval.c
index cfc1f32c..08c24f1a 100644
--- a/eval.c
+++ b/eval.c
@@ -5239,6 +5239,8 @@ void eval_init(void)
   reg_fun(intern(lit("flo-int"), user_package), func_n1(flo_int));
   reg_fun(intern(lit("tofloat"), user_package), func_n1(tofloat));
   reg_fun(intern(lit("toint"), user_package), func_n2o(toint, 1));
+  reg_fun(intern(lit("tofloatz"), user_package), func_n1(tofloatz));
+  reg_fun(intern(lit("tointz"), user_package), func_n2o(tointz, 1));
   reg_fun(intern(lit("less"), user_package), func_n1v(lessv));
   reg_fun(intern(lit("greater"), user_package), func_n1v(greaterv));
   reg_fun(intern(lit("lequal"), user_package), func_n1v(lequalv));
diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1
index 55be9bbc..71e3493a 100644
--- a/txr.1
+++ b/txr.1
@@ -29721,6 +29721,49 @@ Integers outside of this range are
 .code bignum
 integers.
 
+.coNP Functions @ tofloatz and @ tointz
+.synb
+.mets (tofloatz << value )
+.mets (tointz < value <> [ radix ])
+.syne
+.desc
+These functions are closely related to, respectively,
+.code tofloat
+and
+.codn toint .
+They differ in that these functions return a floating-point
+or integer zero, respectively, in some situations
+in which those functions would return
+.code nil
+or throw an error.
+
+Whereas those functions reject a
+.meta value
+argument of
+.codn nil ,
+for that same argument
+.code tofloatz
+function returns 0.0 and
+.code tointz
+returns 0.
+
+Likewise, in cases when
+.code value
+contains a string or character which cannot be
+converted to a number, and
+.code tofloat
+and
+.code toint
+would return
+.codn nil ,
+these functions return 0.0 and 0, respectively.
+
+In other situations, these functions behave
+exactly like
+.code tofloat
+and
+.codn toint .
+
 .coNP Variables @, flo-min @ flo-max and @ flo-epsilon
 .desc
 These variables hold, respectively: the smallest positive floating-point