Allow casting from StringType to {FloatType,DoubleType}

[Fokko]

Feature Request / Improvement

Would be nice to allow this:

[guptaakashdeep]

@Fokko I have added these features. Can you please review these once?

Also, while testing this I also noticed, Conversion from DoubleType/FloatType literal to StringType literal fails. is this expected?

[Fokko]

Thanks for picking this up @guptaakashdeep

Also, while testing this I also noticed, Conversion from DoubleType/FloatType literal to StringType literal fails. is this expected?

I don't think we want to convert from float to string since this is pretty uncommon and we might end up with very long strings when there are these typical float rounding issues. If you're interested in more, there are a few more good first issues :)

[guptaakashdeep]

That makes sense..! And yes I am interested in contributing more :) Do you have any Good First Issues in mind that I can pick and fix? @Fokko. What I saw are mostly either being worked by someone or are under discussion.

[Fokko]

@guptaakashdeep Often, folks claim an issue but don't follow through. Feel free to jump on those :)