Re: Numeric Literals (Summary)

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 10:51  AM, Dave Whipp wrote:

"Michael Lazzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

1.5e1 == 15
16:1.5e1 != (1 + 5/16) * 16

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.

So what about

10:1.5

is that dotted decimal (i.e. ==15) or a float ( == 1.5)?

Both answers feel wrong to me.

I suppose the most consistent thing to do is say it's the dotted form, since that's what it would be in every other radix.

Presumably if you went to the trouble of specifying the "10", that's the behavior you're looking for, since otherwise you couldn't get base10 dotted (10:1.2.3.4) at all.

So no floating point in explicit radix at all, even if the radix is explicitly 10. If you want float, specify it in float/exponential notation.

MikeL