On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 01:27 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
Due to ambiguities, the proposal to allow floating point in bases other than 10 is therefore squished. If anyone still wants it, we can ask the design team to provide a final ruling.And now I know why we can't use C<.> as a floating point in base 16:1.5e1 == 15 16:1.5e1 != (1 + 5/16) * 16
MikeL
