On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Henrik Johansson <dahankz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Really?
Yes. The problem is that many people coming from C like languages may incorrectly assume that i is a floating point number. Manlio > I find that counting digits in large numbers is harder, for me at > least, than expected. The scientific notation is sweet. > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 14:57 Manlio Perillo <manlio.peri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Il giorno martedì 21 giugno 2016 18:35:13 UTC+2, Caleb Spare ha scritto: >>> >>> This was shut down without much discussion at >>> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42. >>> >>> I agree that it's a nice feature. >>> >>> By the way, though, one nice aspect of Go is that because of how >>> untyped constants work you can write integers using scientific >>> notation: >>> >>> for i := 0; i < 10e6; i++ { >>> // ... >>> } >>> >>> This is exactly the same as if you had written 10000000. >>> >>> (I don't think you'd want to do this in C or Java >> >> >> I would not do this even in Go, since it makes the code less readable >> IMHO. >> >> > [...] >> >> >> Manlio >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
