On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 12:07:02 PM UTC-5, Seth wrote: > > Perhaps convoluted, but what about "e" and "π"? I could see some > arithmetic string parser that would use something like this. >
I don't think these would be a good idea to handle in parsefloat by default; those specialized cases that want them can implement their own parser (or just use the Julia parser to get the AST and then decide what constants and operators to accept).
