> > This demonstrates that unary + works in front of numerical literal, > > both in the main language and in the preprocessor. I don't know of > > a way to test whether the last + before the 1 is actually > > considered part of the literal or not. However, both scanf() and > > strtod() consider + as part of a float literal (was there ever a > > time that they didn't? really?). > > What would be the advantages/disadvantages of either way? My > intuition says that +1 should be a symbol, perhaps because it is > rare to write positive numbers in math with a leading +.
well, pd is not the only program, that has to handle string to float conversions ... most parsers i know, would allow a leading '+' char for parsing floats ... > Maybe the errant newbie might be confused when +1 turns out to be a > symbol. But if Pd starts removed + signs upon save, then that could > also be annoying. maybe the newbie is confused by +1 being a symbol? or, if he's not confused by +1 being a symbol, then probably by 1e+2, being a float .. t -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 96771783 http://www.mokabar.tk There's no such entity as "most people". These are generalities. All generalities are meaningless. You've got to pin it down to a specific person doing a specific thing at a specific time and space. William S. Burroughs
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