On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:01:36AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> (Umm... what's a better name than "coloned form"? That term sounds
> really... um... bad.)
How about:
- explicit radix
- dotted notation
- DSD (Dot Separated Digits)
--Dks
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:01:36AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
>>> 256#0_253_254_255 # base 256, NOT identical!
>>
>> is actually not allowed, no?
>
> Correct. It's an error, because radix > 36 mandates coloned form, and
> the colon-form digit 253254255 cannot exist in base 256. AND since
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 03:31 AM, Anton Berezin wrote:
This:
- radix > 36, only colon form is allowed, not alpha digits
implies that this:
256#0_253_254_255 # base 256, NOT identical!
is actually not allowed, no?
Correct. It's an error, because radix > 36 mandates coloned
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:02:57PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
This:
> - radix > 36, only colon form is allowed, not alpha digits
implies that this:
> 256#0_253_254_255 # base 256, NOT identical!
is actually not allowed, no?
%Anton.
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On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 03:31 AM, Anton Berezin wrote:
This:
- radix > 36, only colon form is allowed, not alpha digits
implies that this:
256#0_253_254_255 # base 256, NOT identical!
is actually not allowed, no?
Ick, good point. In theory, the second of those was suppose
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 04:41 PM, Andrew Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:02:57PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
_01.23 # wrong
01.23_ # wrong
Is _ not space eater, or was that not decided? If it is then aren't
these two just literals with space eaters.
Y
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:02:57PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
>_01.23 # wrong
>01.23_ # wrong
Is _ not space eater, or was that not decided? If it is then aren't
these two just literals with space eaters.
andrew
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With the very latest corrections. The last remaining known "numeric
literals" issue is whether we want to allow '.' in explicit radix, e.g.
10#1.234, or whether we want to disallow it as being Way Too Creepy.
Am I missing anything else, or is this part done?
--- Numeric Literals ---
decimal
