On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:34 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
Oops, sorry. I meant radix-point-but-not-exponential. It still seems exponential notation in bases other than 10 is not possible, because of "e".On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:28, Michael Lazzaro wrote:- floating point becomes allowed in explicit radix (and 0b,0c,0x)How can one have floating point if "E" is a valid digit?0x1.0e1 # 1.054931640625 or 16 ?
We probably couldn't get away with it, though I guess the only one that really changes is binary. Of course, as you pointed out, we don't _need_ to have 0b, 0x at all, they're just for backwards brain compatibility. I think if we're having trouble with them, people would probably just rather use 2#, 8#, 16#, etc. and be done with it. Dunno, not getting a lot of feedback on that.Has any consideration been given to using letters other than a~f in the second position to denote a radix?
MikeL
