Re: Numeric Literals (Summary 5)

2002-11-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:06:13AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: : With clarifications, and additional syntactic edge cases. : : 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

Re: Numeric Literals (Summary 5)

2002-11-25 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:06, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > 0x0 # ok, == 0 > 0x0.0 # ok > 0x.0# ok Given that .1 is wrong (from above), I would disallow it here simply for consistency sakes. > 0d1.1E5 # WRONG, exp not allowed in shorthand radix > > 0B0110

Numeric Literals (Summary 5)

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Lazzaro
With clarifications, and additional syntactic edge cases. 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. This version assumes that '.' is allowed, but exponential not